Housing
Housing
Aleksander Andrejev
AT112
The Contents
Houses, not flats
Private property and public property
The importance of ,,home"
Individuality and conformity
Interiors: the importance of cosiness
Owning and renting
Homelessness
The future
Houses, not flats
Detached house not only ensures privacy, it is also a status symbol.
Even a modest detached house, surrounded by garden, gives the
rerequired suggestion of rural life.
Most people would be happy to live in a cottage, and if this is a
thatched cottage so much the better.
Most people try to avoid living in blocks of flats.
Flats, they feel, provide the least amount of privacy.
The people who live in flats are those who cannot afford to live
anywhere else.
The dislike of living in flats is very strong despite of that they are
very comfortable.
People said they felt cut off from the world all those floors up. The
new highrise blocks quickly deteriorated.
Private property and...