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With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed. The first prototype of the Grow Home was built on the campus of McGill University in 1990 and more than one thousand units were built across North America and Europe in the first year alone. In this illustrated guide, Friedman describes the background, conception, and construction of these modest (14" x 36") homes. He details their construction for prospective owners, builders, and architects, showing how past and contemporary precedents have been transformed and how the first versions were adapted by the building industry. Visits to completed Grow Homes shed light on why such homes were purchased and the process by which they "grew." Friedman also shows how the design has been adapted for prefabrication to meet the needs of the developing world. He describes the contribution that small-unit design makes to saving valuable natural resources and shares his experiences in planning communities based on the Grow Home. The Grow Home reveals the development and history of a concept that revolutionizes the home and building industry, has been translated into over 10,000 housing units, and has received, among many accolades, the United Nations World Habitat Award.
Dwellings --- Habitations --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- Architecture, Domestic --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Design and construction. --- Design and construction --- Economic aspects. --- Construction. --- Construction --- Aspect économique. --- House construction --- Modular coordination (Architecture) --- 72.038 --- 72.07 --- 728.3 --- Kleine goedkope woningen ; door de eigenaars zelf af te werken --- Modelwoningen ; prefab ; deels onafgewerkt --- Woningbouw ; rijhuizen ; prototypes ; 1990 ; A. Friedman --- Building, House --- Construction, House --- Home building --- Home construction --- Residential construction --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Building --- Dimensional coordination in building --- Modular design --- Standardization --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Woningbouw ; eengezinshuizen --- Modular coordination --- House construction. --- Architecture, Domestic. --- Coordination modulaire (Architecture) --- Architecture domestique
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1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.
World politics --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Membership. --- Europe --- Europe --- History --- Politics and government --- 1989. --- Allied Control Commission. --- Berlin Wall. --- Berlin wall. --- Berlin. --- Bush administration. --- Cold War. --- East German dissident movements. --- East Germany. --- European Community. --- European home. --- Four Powers. --- German states. --- German unification. --- Gorbachev. --- Hans-Dietrich Genscher. --- Helmut Kohl. --- James A. Baker III. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- NATO expansion. --- NATO reform. --- NATO. --- USSR. --- West German Basic Law. --- Western standards. --- architecture. --- blueprints. --- building permits. --- confederationism. --- domestic institutions. --- four-power control. --- heroic model. --- ideas. --- institutional-transfer model. --- international economic institutions. --- international institutions. --- international military institutions. --- models. --- multinationalism. --- new Europe. --- nondemocratic regimes. --- old order. --- post-Cold War Europe. --- post-Cold War. --- power. --- prefab model. --- prefabricated institutions. --- property pluralism. --- restoration model. --- revivalist model. --- socialism. --- state leaders. --- state sovereignty. --- transatlantic architecture.
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