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Housing And Dwelling Collects The Best In Recent Scholarly And Philosophical Writings That Bear Upon The History Of Domestic Architecture In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Lane Combines Exemplary Readings That Focus On And Examine The Issues Involved In The Study Of Domestic Architecture. The Extracts Are Taken From An Innovative And Informed Combination Of Philosophy, History, Social Science, Art, Literature And Architectural Writings.--book Jacket. Pt. 1. Methods And Interpretations -- Who Interprets? The Historian, The Architect, The Anthropologist, The Archaeologist, The User? -- What Is Home? -- Domestic Spaces As Perceptual, Commemorative, And Performative -- Pt. 2. Themes In Modern Domestic Architecture -- Living Downtown: Nineteenth-century Urban Dwelling -- Victorian Domesticity: Ideals And Realities -- Rural Memories And Desires: The Farm, The Suburb, The Wilderness Retreat -- Modernism, Technology And Utopian Hopes For Mass Housing -- Mass Housing As Single-family Dwelling: The Post-war American Suburb -- Participatory Planning And Design: Initiatives In Self-help Housing, Renovation, And Interior Decoration -- Twentieth-century Apartment Dwelling, Ideals And Realities -- Some Possible Futures -- Where Is Home? Edited By Barbara Miller Lane. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [447]-459) And Index.