{"product_id":"6000-years-of-housing-9780393731200","title":"6 000 Years of Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present. This fascinating survey...any designer or builder who deals with housing would find a use for this book. Fine Homebuilding  This is as essential reference to anyone in the field of housing  beautifully illustrated in the hand of the author. Moshe Safdie and Associates  Inc.  Part architecture  part history  and part anthropology  this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic  semi-nomadic  and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward-looking  ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently  these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world  India  China  and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire  however  outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World.  In the Middle Ages houses served both as homes and as places of work  but gradually the domestic and business lives of the inhabitants became separate. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution  profound changes in the residential development of the western world occurred: housing became segregated along socioeconomic lines and dwelling types polarized  with low-density  single-family houses at one extreme  and tall  high-density  multifamily tenements and apartments at the other. Side effects of Americas automobile-intensive suburban dream housing include inefficient land use  pollution  and urban decay. 6 000 Years of Housing chronicles how this came about  and suggests solutions based on a rich variety of historical precedents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665807204405,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393731200","price":65.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393731200.jpg?v=1782407981","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/6000-years-of-housing-9780393731200","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}