Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Learning from vernacular houses
  • Chapter 2. A history of urban house types
  • Chapter 3. House form and culture re-examined
  • Chapter 4. Social, spatial and temporal factors
  • Chapter 5. Psychological issues and personal choice
  • Chapter 6. Diagnosis of dwelling design and use: an enduring process
  • Chapter 7. House planning: simulation, communication and negotiation
  • Chapter 8. Renovation, rehabilitation and domestic culture
  • Synthesis
  • Conclusions
  • References and bibliography
  • Index