Originally published in 1993, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments. It integrates methodological and philosophical approaches to assist in the making of comparisons across issues, concerns, disciplines and countries, and links theory, research and practice.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments. It integrates methodological and philosophical approaches to assist in the making of comparisons across issues, concerns, disciplines and countries, and links theory, research and practice. It spans the globe, reviewing studies of every conceivable form of housing. In these studies a wide range of social science, design, management and policy perspectives are harnessed to enrich our understanding of the central place in people's life, their homes.
New Series Introduction to the Reissue David Canter and David Stea. List
of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Series Editors Preface David
Canter. Foreword Irwin Altman. Introduction Ernesto G. Arias et al. Part I:
Meaning and Use: A Basis of Understanding Raymond G. Studer
1. Meaning and
Use: A Conceptual Basis Guido Francescato
2. Methodological Issues and
Approaches: A Critical Analysis Jon T. Lang Part II: The Meaning and Use of
Home: Its Interior Roderick J. Lawrence
3. The Interior Use of Home: Behavior
Principles Across and Within European Cultures Yvonne Bernard, Mirilia Bonnes
and M. Vittoria Giuliani
4. Spatial Archetypes and the Experience of Time:
Identifying the Dimensions of Home Gilles Barbey
5. The Spatial Organization
of the Domestic Interior: The Italian Home M. Vittoria Giuliani, Giuseppe
Bove and Giuseppina Rullo Part III: The Meaning and Use of Home: Its Design
Ernesto G. Arias
6. Connotative Meanings of House Styles Jack L. Nasar
7.
User Group Preferences and Their Intensity: The Impacts of Residential Design
Ernesto G. Arias
8. The Meaning of the Corredor in Costa Rica: An
Integrated Methodology for Design Donna Luckey Part IV: The Meaning and Use
of Neighborhood: Spatial Attributes and Social Dynamics Maria M. Yen
9. The
Meaning and Use of Public Space P. Wim Blauw
10. Neighborhood Gentrification:
Dynamics of Meaning and Use in Sćo Paulo, Brazil Lucia Maria M. Bogus
11. The
Space of Citizenship: Visually Perceived Non-Spatial Dimensions of Housing
Thereza C. Carvalho Part V: The Meaning and Use of Housing: The Traditional
Family Boyowa Anthony Chokor
12. The Behavioral Dynamics of Social
Engineering: Lessons for Family Housing Willliam Michelson
13. Housing
Characteristics, Family Relations and Lifestyle: An Empirical Study of
Estonian Families Toomas Niit
14. Inheritability and Attachment: The Detached
House in Japan Kunihiro Narumi Part VI: The Meaning and Use of Housing:
Unconventional Arrangements Kathryn H. Anthony
15. A Hybrid Strategy in a
Study of Shared Housing Carole Després
16. The Study of Collective Housing: A
Swedish Perspective Dick Urban Vestbro
17. Assimilation and Accommodation of
a Housing Innovation: A Case Study Approach of the House Trailer Allan Wallis
Part VII: The Meaning and Use of Housing: Overlooked Populations Karen A.
Franck
18. The Homeless and Doubled-Up Households Elizabeth Huttman
19.
Home is Where You Start From: Childhood Memory in Adult Interpretations of
Home Louise Chawla
20. The Elderly and Housing Relocation in Sweden: A
Comparative Methodology Berth Danermark and Mats Ekström
21. Egyptian Norms,
Womens Lives: A New Form and Content for Housing Moshira El-Rafey and Sharon
E. Sutton Part VIII: Conclusion: Directions and Implications for Future
Developments
22. Getting From What Is to What Should Be: Procedural Issues
Raymond G. Studer
23. A House is Not an Elephant: Centering the Marginal
Willem van Vliet-. Contributors. Index.
Ernesto G. Arias Clare is a Professor Emeritus of Planning and Design, and a Faculty Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Colorado, and Ad Honorem Professor of Urban Research in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Costa Rica. He selected Fulbright Fellow as Teaching Scholar (1984) and Research Scholar (1990) to Latin America on housing policy and sustainability respectively.
The pursuit of his research experience has been towards a contribution in collaborative framing and resolution of planning problems through participation.
This pursuit has been supported by major US and international foundations. It started with his initial work on the Resident Participation and the Residential Quality of US Public Housing at the University of Pennsylvania; to the research on residential environments of the poor as a Fulbright Scholar in Latin America; in community redevelopment work at major US cities; at his later developments of participatory decision-support technologies; and to present efforts introducing technology in public education in Costa Rica as a Board of Directors member of the Omar Dengo Foundation.
He is author of various academic and professional publications in disciplines spanning his experiences from city and regional planning, environmental psychology, architecture, operations research, and computer science.
