Living over the store : architecture and local urban life /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A quintessential urban building
- The shop/house as a global phenomenon. Shophouses of Asia
- The shop in the palazzo : Rome, southern Europe and beyond
- Merchants' houses of northern and western Europe
- From London to Main Street
- The fabric of everyday life. Living and working in the city
- The geography of mixed uses
- Adaptable buildings and flexible economics
- The architecture of hybrid types
- The death and life of the modest shop/house. The gradual separation of family and business
- The building culture of the divided city
- Toward a resilient urbanism
- Conclusion. Hybrid urban practice.