Self Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions

	Self Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions
	by Edited by Michaela Benson, Iqbal Hamiduddin; UCL Press
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	Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning
	interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary
	from leading international figures in the self-build and
	wider housing sector. Through their focus on community,
	dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the
	various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new
	directions for discussions about self-building and
	calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of
	this process, from consideration of the structures,
	policies and practices that shape it, through to the
	lived experience of individuals and households.

	Divided into four parts Discourse, Rationale, Meaning;
	Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity;
	and Perspectives from Practice the volume comes at a time
	of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners,
	as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build
	as a means for producing homes that are more stylised,
	affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of
	households. It responds to recent advances in housing and
	planning policy, while also bringing this into
	conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from
	across the social sciences on housing, home and
	homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update
	understandings of self-build and to account for housing
	as a distinctly social process.


	Date Published: 2017-12-06 08:43:08
	Identifier: SelfBuildHomes
	Item Size: 136003687
	Language: eng
	Media Type: texts

	# Topics
	Housing
	Self-Build Homes
	community
	dwelling
	everyday life
	home
	housing
	housing affordability
	housing crisis
	housing policy
	housing policy and law
	housing practices
	housing struture
	identity
	interdisciplinary research
	planning
	policies
	prospective builders
	structure

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