Living over the store : architecture and local urban life / Howard Davis.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.Description: vii, 256 pISBN: - 9780415783163 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415783170 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780203609590 (ebk.)
- Architecture and local urban life
- 728.314 DAV-I
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Introduction. A quintessential urban building -- The shop/house as a global phenomenon. Shophouses of Asia -- The shop in the palazzo -- Merchants' houses of northern and western Europe -- From London to Main Street -- The fabric of everyday life. Living and working in the city -- The geography of mixed uses -- Adaptable buildings and flexible economics -- The architecture of hybrid types -- The death and life of the modest shop/house. The gradual separation of family and business -- The building culture of the divided city -- Toward a resilient urbanism -- Conclusion. Hybrid urban practice.
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