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Thinking on housing :

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9781315231846

9781351866279

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9781138293847

Thinking on housing :

[Book]

words, memories, use /

Peter King.

New York, NY :

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business,

[2017]

1 online resource (xv, 57 pages)

Routledge Focus

"Routledge Focus."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking on housing -- Housing is -- Care-full use -- Misuse -- The consequences of use -- What housing does -- A note on sources -- Index.

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"If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see? What is housing and what does it do? These seem deceptively simple questions, but they are often left unanswered. The reason for this is that a lot of discourse on housing is really a concern for policy-making and the critical evaluation of existing policies. Discourse, is not, properly speaking, on housing at all. It is concerned with provision, distribution and access, but this thinking on housing stops at the front door. It is only concerned with what is actually external to housing. But for most people, housing already exists and they have access to it. Housing is not then about policy, but about how we can use what is a complex object in a manner that allows us to live well. Housing, for most of us, is about what we do when the front door is firmly shut and we are free from the external world. These essays explore this idea of housing as an object that exists for use. Housing is pictured as an object that contains activity. These pieces look at what we do with housing once we have it and so provides a necessary underpinning for any understanding of why housing is important. A further purpose of these pieces is to present different ways of thinking and writing on housing. It is an attempt to show that housing is a suitable topic for philosophical discourse. It is suggested that we can and should seek to establish a philosophy of housing, rather than just relying on the traditional social sciences."--

Thinking on housing : words, memories, use.

9781138293847

Housing.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.

Housing.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

BUS-- 032000

SOC-- 000000

King, Peter,1960-

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