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Michael Hann

Professor Michael Hann (BA, M.Phil, PhD, FRSA, FTI) holds the Chair of Design Theory at the University of Leeds. He is also Director of the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULITA). He has published across a number of subject areas, has made numerous key-note addresses at international conferences, and is an acknowledged international expert on the geometry of design. Previous publications with Berg are: Structure and Form in Design (2012) and Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Structure and Form in Design : Critical Ideas for Creative Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

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...This book is concerned with structure and form in art and design. It covers a range of topics potentially valuable to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines common in educational...

Design for Ageing-in-Place for High-Density Living in Asia: A Comparative Analysis on Residential Design in Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong

Ong Swee Hong

Ong Swee Hong

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The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Introduction In accordance to a 2006 report presented by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the demographics of those greater than age 65 in Singapore, it is reported that by 2030, one in five Singapore residents will be greater...

Conclusions: Frictions, Gaps and Blockages

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...Domestic Frictions: Between Duty And Desire This book argues for the need to examine the messiness, ambiguity and frictions of everyday domestic practices in order to understand more fully the complex...

Home and the Community

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...Gates, Fences And Walls ‘We do not know any of these people [pointing at blocks enclosing their home]. Well, property developers knock on our door all the time. I have refused several very...

Domestic Spirituality

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...Bonds With The Ancestors Eight of the thirty homes participating in my study possessed a Buddhist altar. This number corresponds with recent statistics...

Introduction

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...The Japanese House? (Fawcett 1980: 12– 14) Does the Japanese house as we know it actually exist? The Western architect who goes to Japan can spend his whole time hunting feverishly for it in vain – what he...

Stuff and Storage

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...The Ideology Of Tidiness Miyawaki (1998: 51) What housewives desire most when they buy a house is ‘a lot of storage’: I Iike a storage room (nando), and a built-in closet (oshi-ire...

Troublesome Things

Inge Daniels

Inge Daniels is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Susan Andrews

Susan Andrews

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The Japanese House : Material Culture in the Modern Home

Berg, 2010

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...Japanese homes are in domestic disarray … there is no unity according to a certain theme, colour, or shape. There is no aesthetic consciousness whatsoever© Susan Andrews© Susan Andrews Domestic Disarray...

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Kim Dovey

Kim Dovey is an architectural critic and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he has served as Associate Dean, Head of Urban Design and Head of Architecture. He has worked with government, industry and community groups and has written and broadcast widely in the mass media. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Urban Design Thinking : A Conceptual Toolkit

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The social condition of urbanity is one of relatively random encounter between strangers in public space. Yet this randomness is also inevitably structured. Another way of saying this is that the sociality of the city is geared...

Visual culture and interruption in global cities

Shirley Jordan

Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she writes about contemporary women’s writing, displacement and hospitality, and city photography. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Christoph Lindner

Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he writes about cities, globalization, and visual culture. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Cities Interrupted : Visual Culture and Urban Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...This critical introduction explores the reach of the book’s guiding concept – interruption – and its to concepts diversion, slowness and even inertia in global cities which will be picked up and further developed in subsequent chapters....