SUBJECT: NEW HOUSING RESOURCE
"An extraordinary compilation!"
--Michael A. Stegman, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Just completed after nearly 7 years, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
HOUSING is a benchmark reference work that includes contributions
from nearly 250 housing experts, recognized as leaders representing
architecture, landscape architecture, urban
design, planning, social and behavioral sciences, public
administration, law,
and economics, among other disciplines. Authors include academic
researchers, housing practitioners, design professionals, and
government officials.
Covering more than 500 topics, from Abandonment to Zoning, the
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOUSING will be a
valuable resource. Peer-reviewed entries, selected by a
distinguished
Board of Consulting Editors and written in plain language, offer
brief
definitions, detailed descriptions, historical background,
insightful
analysis, and critical assessment. Important design issues are
clearly
explained. Entries also contain suggestions for further study,
listing classic works and key publications. Also included are
entries
on relevant legislation, the activities and addresses of
organizations in the field. The encyclopedia features an ingenious
system of extensive crossreferences, a comprehensive index, and an
excellent selection of illustrations.
A small sampling of entries: behavioral aspects, barrier free
design,
building codes, cohousing, computer-aided design, construction
industry, cultural aspects, feminist housing design, historic
preservation, manufactured housing, mixed income housing, new
urbanism, participatory design, post occupancy
evaluation, resident management, residential satisfaction,
self-help
housing, subdivision controls, vernacular housing, women as housing
producers, zoning.
* P R A I S E F O R T H I S V O L U M E *
"invaluable to students and a great resource for
professionalssimply
nothing else fills this gap as well"
Victor Regnier FAIA,
Professor of Architecture ,University of Southern California,
Los Angeles
"I look forward to including this encyclopedia in our reference
collection. It will be a tool I know will support the research
needs
and instructional programs pursued by the College of Architecture
of
Planning"
--Liesel Nolan,
Head, Art & Architecture Library, University of Colorado, Boulder
"This is *the* basic reference, and it will keep that status for
some
time to come. I can't help reiterating that I wish I had had
something
like it over the years. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOUSING should be in
every
library, every design and research professional office, and in the
office of every
government official who has anything to do with housing."
Robert B. Bechtel
Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, and Editor, Environment &
Behavior
"Unprecedented in its multidisciplinary scope and its integration
of
major research and practice issues. An impressive scholarly
achievement . . . a major contribution."
Daniel Stokols
Dean, College of Social Ecology,
University of California, Irvine
"A unique and monumental reference volume that will serve teachers,
researchers, designers, and professionals in the housing field for
many years to come. . . . A superb compendium of content, theory,
design, and key bibliographic material"
Irwin Altman
Distinguished Professor, The University of Utah
"The Encyclopedia of Housing makes an enormous contribution"
--John M. Goering,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Washington, DC
"a monumental work"
--Professor CharlesChoguill, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, Australia,
and Editor, Habitat International
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOUSING, edited by Willem van Vliet--
$149.95 * 8.5" X 11" hardcover * 732 pages * ISBN 0-7619-1332-7