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Using innovative theoretical concepts, this book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. Combining philosophical analysis and literary and film criticism, it puts forward an innovative and insightful new approach to looking at housing and explores issues of exclusion, isolation, anxiety, privacy and the relations between parent and child.

The analysis of positioning patterns for individuals in Mesolithic dwellings presented here is based, on the one hand, on ethnographic data on hunter-gatherer culture-specific patterns for the placing of individuals in the dwelling space and, on the other, on observations in the excavated archaeological record of repetition in the spatial organisation of small artefact concentrations, hearths etc. in the well-preserved remains of Mesolithic dwellings. In addition to the latter spatial organisational patterns, zones containing relatively low densities of debitage have also, in a couple of cases, been seen to coincide with the proposed positions of individuals, as indicated by the 'positive' activity indicators. It has been suggested that these so-called 'seating spaces' are indicative of the fact that individuals seated in a dwelling kept their seating positions free of smaller pieces of waste. They possibly achieved this by sitting on some form of underlay — a small mat of skin or bark — that could easily be cleaned off while they drew to their seating positions larger pieces of debitage that were useful as tools for cutting, shaping etc. Based on data from several well-documented Mesolithic sites, this paper investigates this latter aspect further as a potentially independent way of checking the results of the first phase of distribution analysis of the Mesolithic dwellings. In general, recent excavations incorporating systematic recording of the flint debitage appear to produce meaningful results, while earlier excavations, where this category was recorded in less detail — often just being counted and discarded — tend not to.

A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This means that we have to learn to accept dwelling as it is and find some accommodation with our surrounding environment. This book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. It explores the manner in which we use housing to exclude others and so protect our privacy. It also argues we need to exclude others in order to protect and nurture our loved ones. The book combines philosophical analysis and literary and film criticism to put forward an innovative and insightful new approach to looking at housing. It draws on the work of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Nussbaum and Scruton and the films of Chaplin, Bergman, Lynch, Tarr, Teshigahara and Van Sant to construct a new theoretical approach to housing research.

Global Housing: Dwelling in Addis Ababa' is the first book in a new series about Global Housing, edited by Nelson Mota and Dick van Gameren, published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with the Delft University of Technology.00'Global Housing: Dwelling in Addis Ababa' brings together essays and architectural projects that discuss housing as a key component in the social and urban development of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Over the last two decades the urban landscape of Addis Ababa has been changing at a fast pace, with disruptive consequences for the physical and social fabric of the city. Housing has been one of the key factors for this transformation, affecting job creation, craftsmanship, social and spatial equity, and dwelling practices, to name but a few.00The edited volume brings together twelve architectural projects developed by graduation students from TU Delft?s Global Housing educational program that explore alternative approaches to housing design, dwelling on the challenges brought about by Africa?s urban revolution.00Divided into two sections, this richly illustrated book offers reflections on the city of Addis Ababa, its different types of traditional and contemporary housing and its recent evolution in Part 1; and portfolios of the projects designed by the students enrolled in the program in Part 2. Each portfolio is structured around a theme or issue encountered by the participants in the studio, which is developed upon in a short study. A final essay based on interviews conducted with local actors and examining the challenges set by the city?s rapid urbanization concludes this fascinating contribution to innovative architectural thought in an increasingly urbanized world

The problem of radon in dwellings gained importance in 1984 after an incidence in Pennsylvania, USA; thereafter several measuring techniques have been developed and national survey programs were started throughout the world for monitoring radon levels by government authorities. The lots of work have done by researchers in this field throughout the world. Several developed countries have given guidelines for initiating action to reduce radon levels if found beyond permissible level. The main aim of this article to provide public awareness about the health hazards posed by radon, which is naturally occurring invisible inert gas in the dwellings that is not be detected by human senses.

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863), whose family owned more than one hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can provide only one part of the story of the Jones family plantations in coastal Georgia. In this remarkable new book, the religious historian Erskine Clarke completes the story, offering a narrative history of four generations of the plantations' inhabitants, white and black.Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic describes the simultaneous but vastly different experiences of slave and slave owner. This "upstairsdownstairs" history reveals in detail how the benevolent impulses of Jones and his family became ideological supports for deep oppression, and how the slave Lizzy Jones and members of her family struggled against that oppression. Through letters, plantation and church records, court documents, slave narratives, archaeological findings, and the memory of the African-American community, Clarke brings to light the long-suppressed history of the slaves of the Jones plantations-a history inseparably bound to that of their white owners

The current situation in the real estate market in Lithuania is favourable for real estate developers. Dwelling prices in Vilnius are much lower than those in other EU member‐states. However, the rate of their increase is one of the highest in the European Union. At the end of 2003, one of the causes of the purchasing boom was the anticipated rise in real estate prices, when Lithuania was gradually integrating into the European Union. The growing income of the real estate sector and high profit attracted more and more companies to real estate market. But the situation in the real estate market has changed. Therefore, to protect the investments in real estate, customers should carefully select the investment projects, paying special attention to reliability and competence of project developers. The analysis of financial indicators of six specially selected project developers made by the authors allowed them to state that not all real estate developers in the market are reliable and able to satisfy liability claims because they may face solvency problems. In some cases, indicators even warn about a threat of bankruptcy for a company. In addition to objective factors influencing the market, such as the conditions of crediting, the economic development of the state, standard of living of the population, migration, etc., some negative effects play an important role in the process of price rising. Authors analyzed the difference in price between the cheapest and most expensive dwellings in different segments of real estate market in Vilnius, Lithuania. Būsto rinkos analizė Vilniuje Santrauka Dabartine situacija nekilnojamojo turto rinkoje yra palanki nekilnojamojo turtoįmonėms‐ nekilnojamojo turto rinkosdalyviams. Būsto kainos Vilniuje yra gerokai žemesnes nei analogiško būsto kainos senosiose EuroposSąjungosšalysenarėse, o pastaraisiais metaiskainųaugimas ‐ vienas sparčiausiu lyginant su ES. 2003 m.kainųaugimo bumas netgi buvo siejamas suįstojimoiEuroposSąjungalūkesčiais. Augančios nekilnojamojo turto rinkos pajamos ir didelis pelnasInekilnojamojo turto rinka pritraukia vis daugiau naujuįmonių. Kad apsaugotu savo investicijasInekilnojamąjįturtą,pirkėjaituri atidžiai rinktis investicinius projektus, ypatingadėmesįskirdami projektoplatintojukompetencijai.Autoriųatliktasesiųpasirinktuįmonių, investuojančiuIVilniaus nekilnojamojo turto rinka, lyginimas leidžia teigti, kad toli gražu ne visos analizuotosįmonespajėgiosįvykdytisavo prisiimtus sutartiniusįsipareigojimus. Atskiri rodikliai tam tikra prasme gali byloti ir apieįmonesbankrotopavojų. Be objektyviu veiksniu, darančiuįtakanekilnojamojo turto rinkai (tokiu kaip kreditavimosąlygos, šalies ekonomikosplėtra, visuomenes gyvenimo būdo standartai, migracija ir pan.),įvairusnepalankūs veiksniai taip pat daro nemažaįtakakainųaugimui rinkoje,todėlautoriai analizuoja skirtingu būsto segmentukainųskirtumus Vilniaus nekilnojamojo turto rinkoje,jųkitimui darančiusįtakaveiksnius ir tendencijas. First published online:18 Oct 2010

People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums. The contributions build particularly on phenomenological, structuralist and multi-species approaches to environmental perception and experience, but they also argue for incorporating political power into analysis alongside dwelling, cosmology and everyday practice. The book's 13 ethnographically rich chapters explore how the material and the conceptual are entangled in and as landscapes, but it also looks at how these processes unfold at many scales in time and space, involving different actors with different powers. Thus it reaches towards new methodologies and new ways of using anthropology to engage with the sense of crisis concerning environment, movements of people, climate change and other planetary transformations. Dwelling in political landscapes: contemporary anthropological perspectives builds substantially upon anthropological work by Tim Ingold and others, which emphasises the ongoing and open-ended, yet historically conditioned ways in which humans and nonhumans produce the environments they inhabit. In such work, landscapes are understood as the medium and outcome of meaningful life activities, where humans, like other animals, dwell. This means that landscapes are neither social/cultural nor natural, but socio-natural. Protesting against and moving on from the proverbial dualisms of modern, Western and maybe capitalist thought, is only the first step in renewing anthropology's methodology for the current epoch, however. The contributions ask how seemingly disconnected temporal, representational, economic and other systemic dynamics fold back on lived experience that are materialised in landscapes.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Designing Our Built Space -- Urban Open Space Design: What to Do? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The New Wave of Urban Space -- 3 Imageability -- 4 Design and Scientific Thinking -- 5 Conclusion: What to Do? -- References -- The City Around: For an Urban Space at a Walking Pace -- 1 Introduction: Proximity as a Design Horizon -- 2 Towards a Walking City -- 3 Tactics for a City at Walking Pace -- 3.1 Designing a "15-min City" -- 3.2 Promoting the Event Dimension as a Material of Urban Living -- 3.3 Promoting a Graphitized and Prototypical City -- 3.4 Enhancing the Visual Quality of the Scenic Box -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Design of the Ephemeral in Urban Spaces -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Seeds of Counter-Revolution -- 3 The Milan Case -- 3.1 FuoriSalone: The Time Bomb -- 4 The Temporary/Permanent of Tactical Urbanism -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Reading the Current Cities to Anticipate Their Changes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology: Reading Drivers -- 2.1 Key Aspects of Urban Design -- 2.2 Design Layers -- 3 Analysis: What if… -- 3.1 What if We Shape Cluster Cities? -- 3.2 What if We Shape Branded Cities? -- 3.3 What if We Build Event Cities? -- 3.4 What if We Build Social Cities? -- 3.5 What if We Build Augmented Cities? -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Reuse of Contemporary City: Experience and Ecology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Consciousness and Ecosystems -- 3 Experience of Places -- 3.1 Attractive Spaces -- 3.2 Fractals Appeal -- 4 Reuse Design in Contemporary City -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Perceiving Our Aesthetic Space -- Atmosphere Design of Urban Places. A Scientific Phenomenological Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Atmosphere Is a Tertiary Quality -- 3 An Operational Definition of Atmosphere -- 4 Conclusion: The Self in the Atmosphere of Urban Places -- References.

Condensed ingenuity: Japanese residential architecture. When designing small residences, Japanese architects play with the boundaries of space, employ unusual materials, and develop new concepts for living together. The creativity of Japan's architects is revealed by their buildings and by their ability to organize even the tiniest space. The short life of residential buildings has led to an enormous store of architecture ideas, and "Small Houses" documents the current approaches. Japanese residential buildings are and have always been a seismograph of current trends in the country's architecture. The evolution this housing type has undergone since the early days of Japanese modernism is therefore the subject of Ulf Meyer's introductory essay. The project descriptions that follow it are dedicated to the specifically Japanese approach to certain elements of architecture. The focus of the project description is on the architectural concept, communicated to the reader in numerous illustrations and overview plans. Scattered texts provide more detailed information about the cultural and design background. "Small Houses" is addressed to architects, interior designers, students, and interested members of the general public. Although it includes works by such renowned architects as Sou Fujimoto Architects and Atelier Bow-Wow, the primary focus is on buildings by firms that are not yet famous abroad but have already attracted a lot of attention in Japan for their powerful architectural ideas