New households, new housing / edited by Karen A. Franck, Sherry Ahrentzen.

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New households, new housing / edited by Karen A. Franck, Sherry Ahrentzen.

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xv, 343 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / C. Richard Hatch -- Introduction / Sherry Ahrentzen -- Part I. Collective housing -- Overview of collective and shared housing / Karen A. Franck -- Apartments and collective life in nineteenth century New York / Elizabeth Cromley -- Early European collective habitation : from utopian ideal to reality / Norbert Schoenauer -- Communal housing in Sweden : a remedy for the stress of everyday life? / Alison Woodward -- Cohousing in Denmark / Kathryn M. McCamant, Charles R. Durrett -- The party wall as the architecture of sharing / Jill Stoner -- Part II. Housing for single-parent households -- Overview of housing for single-parent households / Sherry Ahrentzen -- Two prototypical designs for single parents : the congregate house and the new American house / Jacqueline Leavitt -- Two cases of transitional housing development in Boston / Joan Forrester Sprague -- Passage community : second-stage housing for single parents / Christine C. Cook -- Developing two women's housing cooperatives / Gerda R. Wekerle, Sylvia Novac -- Part III. Single room occupancy housing -- Overview of single room occupancy housing / Karen A. Franck -- The design of a single room with furniture for a residential hotel / Michael Mostoller -- A look at SRO hotel residents with recommendations for management and design / Mary Burki -- A single room occupancy hotel : a rediscovered housing type for single people / Karen A. Franck.
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Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0442224869
9780442224868

Subject:

Shared housing.
Single parents Housing.
Single people Housing.
Logement partagé.
Parents uniques Logement.
Personnes seules Logement.
shared housing.

Added entries:

Franck, Karen A.
Ahrentzen, Sherry.

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Location: Library main 58389
Call No.: ID:90-B6741
Status: Available

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