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Title Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions / edited by Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309) and index.
Contents Self-build homes: social values and the lived experience of housing in practice/ Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin -- Part 1: Discourse, rationale, meaning / Community building: self-build and the neighbourhood commons / Iqbal Hamiduddin -- Models of self-build and collaborative housing in the United Kingdom / Martin Field -- Eco-homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building / Jenny Pickerill -- Part 2: Values, lifestyles, imaginaries -- From cultures of resistance to the new social movements: DIY self-build in West Wales / Elaine Forde -- Protohome: rethinking home through co-production / Julia Heslop -- Of flux or finality? On the process and dynamics of a co-housing group in formation / Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Kathleen Scanlon -- Part 3: Community and identity -- Self-building as a practice of homemaking: the affective spaces of unfinished home / Michaela Benson -- Senior co-housing: restoring sociable community in later life / Jim Hudson -- Something wonderful in my back yard: the social impetus for group self-building / Emma Heffernan and Pieter de Wilde -- Building a self: community self-build and the reconstruction of identity / Katherine Collins -- Part 4: Perspectives from practice -- Self-build neighbourhoods for living and working: a view from Tübingen, Germany / Andreas Feldtkeller -- Turning the theory into reality / Ted Stevens -- Taking self-build out of its 'small and special box': citizens as agents for the political and the social of self-build -- Stephen Hill.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 22, 2021).
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
Subject Owner-built houses.
Owner-built houses -- Great Britain.
House construction -- Social aspects.
Habitations construites par le propriétaire.
Habitations construites par le propriétaire -- Grande-Bretagne.
Habitations -- Construction -- Aspect social.
owner-built houses.
Owner-built houses
Great Britain
Added Author Benson, Michaela, editor.
Hamiduddin, Iqbal, editor.
Other Form: Print version: HAMIDUDDIN, IQBAL. SELF-BUILD HOMES. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL PRESS, 2017 1911576895 (OCoLC)994362560
ISBN 9781911576877 (PDF)
1911576879
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1911576909
9781911576914 (mob)
1911576917
9781911576921 (html)
1911576925
9781911576891 (Hbk.)
9781911576884 (Pbk.)
1911576887
1911576895
9781911576884
Standard No. GBVCP 1014945704
AU@ 000061349395

 
    
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