Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria The Search for Indigeneity and Cultural Practices in Design

Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria The Search for Indigeneity and Cultural Practices in Design / by Abubakar Danladi Isah.

This book provides readers with two major practical insights. Firstly, on the basis of statistical inquiry it identifies the significance of socio-cultural elements that encourage user-instigated transformation. Secondly, it employs layout pattern analysis to distinguish transformation patterns, hen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isah, Abubakar Danladi (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Urban geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Sustainable development.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2: The dimension of public housing in Nigeria
  • Chapter 3: Culture and Space as an integral phenomenon of housing transformation
  • Chapter 4: Search for cultural attributes appropriate for design ideals
  • Chapter 5: Search for Public housing inhabitants’ link with the root
  • Chapter 6: Search for design patterns and design indices in transformed housing units
  • Chapter 7: Cultural determinants and spatial patterns of design framework units
  • Chapter 8: Rethinking sustainable public housing design in cultured communities
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Summary.

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