The Common Place

The Ordinary Experience of Housing

Peter King (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

132 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-9757-1 (ISBN)

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Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. We seek secure roots to our lives rather than step-changes and radical reform. This book considers this ordinary experience of housing and how we come to depend upon it. The notion of the ordinary is used to argue against the conceits of policymaking and the fetish for domestic design. Using a variety of methods such as critical analysis and film criticism (looking at the work of film-makers as diverse as Bergman, Dreyer, Shyamalan, Tarkovsky, Tati and the Wachowski Brothers), it provides an original, impressionistic view of the role housing plays in our lives.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Roots and ruts; The unseen frame; Seeing the ordinary; Housing in the background; Memory and exile; Accommodating change; Conclusions; Bibliography; Films; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.12.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-8153-9757-7 / 0815397577
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-9757-1 / 9780815397571
Zustand	Neuware