Download or read book Dwelling in Resistance written by Chelsea Schelly and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans take for granted much of what is materially involved in the daily rituals of dwelling. In Dwelling in Resistance, Chelsea Schelly examines four alternative U.S. communities—“The Farm,” “Twin Oaks,” “Dancing Rabbit,” and “Earthships”—where electricity, water, heat, waste, food, and transportation practices differ markedly from those of the vast majority of Americans. Schelly portrays a wide range of residential living alternatives utilizing renewable, small-scale, de-centralized technologies. These technologies considerably change how individuals and communities interact with the material world, their natural environment, and one another. Using in depth interviews and compelling ethnographic observations, the book offers an insightful look at different communities’ practices and principles and their successful endeavors in sustainability and self-sufficiency.
Download or read book Dwelling in Resistance written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do some Americans come to adopt alternative technologies in residential dwelling? In order to consider this question, this dissertation explores six diverse cases of alternative technology adoption at the residential scale through a theoretical lens that focuses on the cultural embeddedness of choice, the ways that material systems operate as strategies of power (shaping social life, mental conceptions, and personal action), and how alternative material systems involve alternative forms of social organization and personal practice. Homeowners who have adopted solar electric technology in Colorado (n=48) and Wisconsin (n=48) were interviewed about their choice to adopt and their experience living with solar technology. In addition, through ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation examines radically sustainable off-grid homes (called Earthships) and the alternative organization that builds them, two intentional communities (The Farm and Twin Oaks), and temporary alternative dwelling at Rainbow Gatherings. In this order, these cases represent increasing levels of disengagement from "the grid" - the material systems of electricity, water, waste, food, and transportation (as well as reproduction, education, work and social organization) - upon which normal residential dwelling depends. This research suggests that the choices and practices of these Americans, which involve living with alternative technology, are organized around a particular set of ethics, a unique ethic operating in each case. These orienting ethics shape how individuals organize their life preferences and actions, although they are not necessarily conscious positions. Thus, people dwell in resistance, although they are not consciously resisting, because their physical practices and bodily actions are organized around abstract ethical principles that contradict the ideals embedded within and perpetuated by mainstream dwelling technologies.
Download or read book Housing and Dwelling written by Barbara Miller Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, literature and architectural writings. Uniquely, the readings underline the point of view of the user of a dwelling and assess the impact of varying uses on the evolution of domestic architecture. This book is a valuable asset for students, scholars, and designers alike, exploring the extraordinary variety of methods, interpretations and source materials now available in this important field. For students, it opens windows on the many aspects of domestic architecture. For scholars, it introduces new, interdisciplinary points of view and suggests directions for further research. It acquaints practising architects in the field of housing design with history and methods and offers directions for future design possibilities.
Download or read book Recommended Building Code Requirements for New Dwelling Construction with Special Reference to War Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contractor s Guide to the Building Code written by Jack M. Hageman and published by Craftsman Book Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't let your jobs be held up by failing code inspections. Smooth sign-off by the inspector is the goal, but to make this ideal happen on your job site, you need to understand the requirements of latest editions of the International Building Code and the International Residential Code. Understanding what the codes require can be a real challenge. This new, completely revised Contractor's Guide to the Building Code cuts through the legalese of the code books. It explains the important requirements for residential and light commercial structures in plain, simple English so you can get it right the first time.
Download or read book Building Code Requirements for New Dwelling Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disasters and the Small Dwelling written by Yasemin Aysan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceeding of the conferences on Disasters and the Small Dwelling, held at Oxford in September 1990. The 26 papers cover recent experiences of post-disaster shelter and housing provision, review what has been achieved, what needs disseminating and implementing, and assesses what needs further development. The volume thus defines an international agenda to achieve safer low-income dwellings in the course of the 1990s, designated International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction by the UN. It will be essential reading for anyone - whether governmental or non-governmental agency officials, academic researchers, representatives of private industry or consultants - whose work involves analysis, shelter, mitigation and reconstruction programmes for low-income dwellings in disaster-prone areas.
Download or read book Accelerating Climate Action in Israel Refocusing Mitigation Policies for the Electricity Residential and Transport Sectors written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyses the actions necessary in the near and medium term to reduce Israel’s GHG emissions in three sectors– electricity, residential and transport, for which specific policy recommendations are developed. The report will serve as input to the roadmap that will be developed to support the country’s long-term low-emission strategy (LT-LEDS).
Download or read book Global Dwelling written by K. Hadjri and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers from the proceedings of the Third OIKONET Conference is contained in this book. OIKONET is a European project co-funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) with the purpose of studying contemporary housing from a multidisciplinary and global perspective by encompassing the multiple dimensions which condition the forms of dwelling in today’s societies: architectural, urban, environmental, economic, cultural and social. Following on from the first two OIKONET conferences held respectively in Barcelona, Spain in 2014 and Bratislava, Slovakia in 2015, the third conference took place in Manchester, the UK in 2016. Providing a valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and others with an interest in housing studies, the papers included in this book cover three themes, namely sustainability of housing environments, innovation in housing design and planning, and participation in housing design and construction.
Download or read book Dwelling in Possibility written by Yopie Prins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwelling in Possibility cuts across conventional boundaries between critical and creative writing by featuring the work of both women poets and feminist critics as they explore and exemplify the relationship between gender and poetic genres. The contributors suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. Most of the contributions are published here for the first time.
Download or read book Dwelling Portably 2009 2015 written by Bert Davis and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dwelling Portably series returns with Holly and Bert's newest contribution to their fourth decade of DIY homesteading. The 2009-2015 collection assembles their correspondence and what they've picked up over the last six years, lovingly crafted on manual typewriters from a remote Oregon outpost. The tips and tricks presented here are practical and useful—pertaining to things like biking, permanent camping, alternative communities, DIY healthcare, disaster preparation, eating off the land, and MacGyver-like skills to prepare you for any and all situations. Whether you’re planning to step off the grid or just simplify your life a little, Dwelling Portably has something for just about everyone.
Download or read book Minimum Energy Dwelling MED Design Research Workbook written by Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Regulations in Brief written by Ray Tricker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise guide to the UK Building Regulations for the many people working on simple projects such as building extensions and building adaptations. Previous ed.: 2004.
Download or read book Dwelling Place written by Erskine Clarke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize. “[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written.”—The New Republic Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America’s slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804–1863), whose family owned more than one hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can provide only one part of the story of the Jones family plantations in coastal Georgia. In this remarkable new book, the religious historian Erskine Clarke completes the story, offering a narrative history of four generations of the plantations’ inhabitants, white and black. Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic describes the simultaneous but vastly different experiences of slave and slave owner. This “upstairsdownstairs” history reveals in detail how the benevolent impulses of Jones and his family became ideological supports for deep oppression, and how the slave Lizzy Jones and members of her family struggled against that oppression. Through letters, plantation and church records, court documents, slave narratives, archaeological findings, and the memory of the African American community, Clarke brings to light the long-suppressed history of the slaves of the Jones plantations—a history inseparably bound to that of their white owners. “Clarke’s magisterial, multiperspective study of the antebellum South describes two family groups . . . a ‘total’ history of interconnected people divided by race, legal status, and gender.”—Choice
Download or read book Code of Massachusetts regulations 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.
Download or read book Code of Massachusetts regulations 2004 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.
Download or read book Code of Massachusetts regulations 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.
