Making Home(s) in Displacement
Title | Making Home(s) in Displacement PDF eBook |
Author | Luce Beeckmans |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2022-01-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9462702934 |
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.
The Affordable City
Title | The Affordable City PDF eBook |
Author | Shane Phillips |
Publisher | Island Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1642831336 |
From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.
Handbook on Home and Migration
Title | Handbook on Home and Migration PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Boccagni |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 703 |
Release | 2023-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1800882777 |
This dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging. Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, it advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Code of Federal Regulations
Title | Code of Federal Regulations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1108 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Administrative law |
ISBN |
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
Title | The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 868 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Administrative law |
ISBN |
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
The Perfect $100,000 House
Title | The Perfect $100,000 House PDF eBook |
Author | Karrie Jacobs |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2007-05-29 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1440684529 |
A home of one’s own has always been a cornerstone of the American dream, fulfilling like nothing else the desire for comfort, financial security, independence, and with a little luck, even a touch of distinctive character, or even beauty. But what we have come to regard as almost a national birthright has recently begun to elude more and more prospective homebuyers. Where housing is concerned, affordable and well-crafted rarely exist together. Or do they? For years, founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine and noted architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs had been confronting this question both professionally and personally. Finally, she decided to see for herself whether it was possible to build the home of her own dreams for a reasonable sum. The Perfect $100,000 House is the story of that quest, a search that takes her from a two-week crash course in housebuilding in Vermont to a road trip of some 14,000 miles. In the course of her journey Jacobs encounters a group of intrepid and visionary architects and builders working to revolutionize the way Americans thinks about homes, about construction techniques, and about the very idea of community. By her trip’s end Jacobs, has not only had a practical and sobering education in the economics, aesthetics, and politics of homebuilding, but has been spurred to challenge her own deeply held beliefs about what constitutes an ideal home. The Perfect $100,000 House is a compelling and inspiring demonstration that we can live in homes that are sensible, modest, and beautiful.
The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement
Title | The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement PDF eBook |
Author | Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute Jamie Draper |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2024-03-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192899856 |
The situation of internally displaced persons has long been a matter of international concern. This volume develops a distinctive research agenda for the political philosophy of internal displacement, and highlights the salience of the phenomenon for debates on migration, refugees, territorial rights, state sovereignty, and climate change.