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• Title:Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions / edited by Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Benson, Michaela, editor.
  Hamiduddin, Iqbal, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : UCL Press, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TH4812 .S45 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Owner-built houses.
  House construction--Social aspects.
  Architecture, Domestic--Social aspects.
  Architecture, Domestic--Design and construction.
  
• Description:xv, 316 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Self-Build Homes sets out to consider how understanding the social dimensions of self-build might advance theory, practice and research." -- Preface, page v.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-309) and index.
  
• ISBN:1911576895 (Hbk.)
  9781911576891 (Hbk.)
  1911576887 (Pbk.)
  9781911576884 (Pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Self-build homes: social values and the lived experience of housing in practice / Iqbal Hamiduddin
  pt. 1 Discourse, rationale, meaning
  2. Community building: self-build and the neighbourhood commons / Iqbal Hamiduddin
  3. Models of self-build and collaborative housing in the United Kingdom / Martin Field
  4. Eco-homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building / Jenny Pickerill
  pt. 2 Values, lifestyles, imaginaries
  5. From cultures of resistance to the new social movements: DIY self-build in West Wales / Elaine Forde
  6. Protohome: rethinking home through co-production / Julia Heslop
  7. Of flux or finality? On the process and dynamics of a co-housing group in formation / Kathleen Scanlon
  pt. 3 Community and identity
  8. Self-building as a practice of homemaking: the affective spaces of unfinished homes / Michaela Benson
  9. Senior co-housing: restoring sociable community in later life / Jim Hudson
  10. Something wonderful in my back yard: the social impetus for group self-building / Pieter de Wilde
  11. Building a self: community self-build and the reconstruction of identity / Katherine Collins
  pt. 4 Perspectives from practice
  12. Self-build neighbourhoods for living and working: a view from Tubingen, Germany / Andreas Feldtkeller
  13. Turning the theory into reality / Ted Stevens
  14. Taking self-build out of its `small and special box': citizens as agents for the political and the social of self-build / Stephen Hill.