Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions / edited by Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benson, Michaela, editor.

Hamiduddin, Iqbal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Owner-built houses.

House construction--Social aspects.

House construction.

Architecture, Domestic--Social aspects.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 316 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2017.

Summary:

Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recognition of the social dimensions of this process, from consideration of the structures, policies and practices that shape it, through to the lived experience of individuals and households. Divided into four parts - Discourse, Rationale, Meaning; Values, Lifestyles, Imaginaries; Community and Identity; and Perspectives from Practice - the volume comes at a time of renewed focus from policy managers and practitioners, as well as prospective builders themselves, on self-build as a means for producing homes that are more stylised, affordable and appropriate for the specific needs of households. It responds to recent advances in housing and planning policy, while also bringing this into conversation with interdisciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences on housing, home and homemaking. In this way, the book seeks to update understandings of self-build and to account for housing as a distinctly social process. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Self-build homes: social values and the lived experience of housing in practice / Michaela Benson Benson, Michaela, Iqbal Hamiduddin Hamiduddin, Iqbal 1

Part 1 Discourse, rationale, meaning 15

2 Community building: self-build and the neighbourhood commons / Iqbal Hamiduddin Hamiduddin, Iqbal 17

3 Models of self-build and collaborative housing in the United Kingdom / Martin Field Field, Martin 38

4 Eco-homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building / Jenny Pickerill Pickerill, Jenny 56

Part 2 Values, lifestyles, imaginaries 79

5 From cultures of resistance to the new social movements: DIY self-build in West Wales / Elaine Forde Forde, Elaine 81

6 Protohome: rethinking home through co-production / Julia Heslop Heslop, Julia 96

7 Of flux or finality? On the process and dynamics of a co-housing group in formation / Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Arrigoitia, Melissa Fernández, Kathleen Scanlon Scanlon, Kathleen 115

Part 3 Community and identity 139

8 Self-building as a practice of homemaking: the affective spaces of unfinished homes / Michaela Benson Benson, Michaela 141

9 Senior co-housing: restoring sociable community in later life / Jim Hudson Hudson, Jim 157

10 Something wonderful in my back yard: the social impetus for group self-building / Emma Heffernan Heffernan, Emma, Pieter de Wilde Wilde, Pieter de 174

11 Building a self: community self-build and the reconstruction of identity / Katherine Collins Collins, Katherine 192

Part 4 Perspectives from practice 207

12 Self-build neighbourhoods for living and working: a view from Tübingen, Germany / Andreas Feldtkeller Feldtkeller, Andreas 209

13 Turning the theory into reality / Ted Stevens Stevens, Ted 227

14 Taking self-build out of its 'small and special box': citizens as agents for the political and the social of self-build / Stephen Hill Hill, Stephen 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-309) and index.

ISBN:

1911576895

9781911576891

1911576887

9781911576884

OCLC:

994362560