An introduction to housing in the United States:
its characteristic forms and its environmental implications.
What are the basic requirements for a home? Christine Hunter looks at how legal, cultural, and technological standards have developed, and examines current criteria for a "minimum standard" family home, in three possible forms: freestanding house, attached house, and apartment. She discusses interior spaces, connections to the outdoors, mechanical and plumbing connections, and connections to a larger community. She emphasizes varied and often conflicting environmental concerns, and examines how homes are grouped and combined with other building types and open spaces into neighborhoods.
First published in 1999, the book was re-issued in paperback in 2008 and may be ordered directly from W. W. Norton & Company.
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"For book collectors and those with an interest in the residential landscape, it belongs on a shelf with J.B.Jackson, Kenneth T. Jackson, and Amos Rapoport. If you don't buy one copy you should consider buying two. It is a great book to give to anyone who wants to understand the forces that shape our houses and neighborhoods."
Architecture Boston
“Should be required reading for architects, planners, developers, and all those who love history and seek a wider understanding of the social landscape and environmental concerns”
Ginny Graves,
Center for Understanding the Built Environment
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