Under Pressure : Essays on Urban Housing (Hardcover)

Introduction 00. Urban Housing Under Pressure Part 1: Learning from History 01. Future Histories 02. Living Off the Land 03. The Value of a Home: A Critical Approach to Local Practice 04. Tectonics and Urban Identity Part 2: Changing Domesticities 05. New Domesticities, New Realities 06. Empowering Entrepreneurship 07. Micro?Macro Living Part 3: Housing Finance and Policy 08. Confronting Affordable Housing Challenges: The Local Role 09. Urban Housing and the Value of the Architect 10. Ten Points on a Projective Economy and Architecture Part 4: Design and Material Innovation 11. Voids and Other Invisible Objects 12. (Re)Configuring Typology 13. Material Speculation: A Science and Craft 14. Speculating with Constraints 15. The Architect’s Agency in a Developers’ Market