Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an «H-bomb shelter» and the nuclear furnace underneath? Or a house designed by God to harmonize with the cosmic Muzak? The Canadian Home explains how our housing came to be including the pagan origins of «colonial» homes, why «Tudor» is not Tudor, and where so many predictions went wrong. But the book is not just about tastes and floor plans; it also celebrates technological innovation, from prehistoric...
Strategies for the conservation and revitalization of buildings and districts have preoccupied the international community for decades. This book summarizes the five major legislative approaches, the treaties and international declarations (including The Habitat Agenda 1996), outlining how to deal with these properties, e.g. in light of «sustainable development.» Positive and negative examples from some twenty jurisdictions are cited, but they are seldom «place specific.» Indeed, most of the...
