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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 public property
Home as a castle implies a clear demarcation  between  private 
property and public  domain .
Flats involve uncertainties.
Uncetainties  perhaps  explain why the „communal“ living  expected  of 
flat­dwellers has been unsuccessful.
Law and  custom   seem  to  support  a clear separation between public 
and private.
People who  lives  in public domain also have a lot of restrictions and 
dutyes.
People who lives in the private property have no restriction  for own 
property and it  shows  exactly where the private property  begins .
The importance of “home”
British  people have  little  deep­rooted attachment to their house as 
an  object , or to the  land  on which it  stands .
It is the  abstract  idea of “home” which is  important , not the  building
This will be sold when the time and  price  is right.
The houses themselves are just investments.
Another  is the  fact  that it is extremely rare for people to commission 
the building of their own houses.
This  notion  of houses principally as investment leads to a  strange  
approach  toward house prices.
Individuality and conformity
Flats are not  unpopular  just because they do not give enough 
privacy.
It is also that they do not  allow  enough  scope  for the expression of 
individuality.
Not everything about housing in  Britain  displays individuality. Most 
houses are  built  one at a time. Instead,  whole  streets, even 
neighborhoods, are built at the  same  time and same design.
But if you  walk  down the same street that you saw from the air, 
every single house would seem different–people give individuality to 
their house.
All this says to us that anybody who wants to built  an extension to 
their house must  first  get “ planning   permission ” from the  local   
authorities.
Interiors: the importance of cosiness
British idea of home is as much psychological as physical, so is their 
idea of  domestic  comfort.
The important  thing  is to feel cosy – that is, to create an atmosphere 
which seem warm.
To many,  part  of cosiness is the  feeling  of tradition.
Privacy is an element of cosiness.
Privacy must be preserved so houses normally have a “hall” onto 
which the  front   door  opens.
With  its own door, through which people  pass   before   getting  to the 
hall–an extra line of defence!
The  back  door is for family and  close   friends  only.
Owning and renting
The  desire  to own the  place  where you live is  almost   universal  in 
Britain.  However , house prices are high. 
This  dilemma  is overcome by the mortgage system.
More and more of the people who donˇt  already  own a house simply 
canˇt get their feet on even the lowest rung of the  ladder .
Owning was made easier by  government  policies which offered 
people various kinds of financial assistance to help  them  do so.
There  are  organizations  which run their properties like a business 
but are obliged to run them for  social  benefit.
Homelessness
Number s of people who have nowhere to live vary, but at the 
present  time they probably  stand   between a  quarter  and a  half  
million.
All  reasons  amout to the  simple  fact that there isnˇt enough 
affordable accommodation for them.
Most  homeless  families  find  temporary accomodation in boarding 
houses. Some people find even more temporary shelter in hostels for 
the homeless. Some just live on the streets.
In many  cases , the homeless are those with personal problems which 
make it difficult for them to settle down. In some cases, they are 
peple  who simply donˇt want to settle down.
The future
More an more people want to live on their own or in small families. 
Millions  of new  homes  will need to be built in the next decade or so.
The problem is not just that Britain is a densely populated country.
Housing takes up an awful lot of  space  and eats up too much 
countryside.
A “ green  points” system has been drawn up, whereby developers can 
obtain planning permission only if they achieve a certain  score .
In this century, almost half of the new homes built have been flats. 
The question is whether enough people in Britain will  accept  this 
more communal, less private, lifestyle.
Thank you for  listening
 

Document Outline

  • Slide 1
  • 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
  • Thank you for listening
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