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The Common Place: The Ordinary Experience of Housing (Design and the Built Environment)
by Peter King
Binding: Hardcover, 121 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
List Price: USD $110.00
Weight: 70
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.2 x W: 0.46 inches
ISBN 10: 0754646114
ISBN 13: 9780754646112
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Book Description:
Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policy makers 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 policy making 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.


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