Speculations on the Question: What Is Housing?

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?, and its opposite question, what is not housing?

List of contents

1. The Question 2. Writing Subjectively on the Subjective 3. Policy Thinking 4. Private Dwelling 5. Dwelling Behaves 6. Machines and Organisms 7. More Machines 8. The Boundary Around Us 9. Too Much Noise 10. Who Cares? 11. We All Share 12. At the Ends of Life 13. Cares of the World 14. The Place of Suffering 15. In praise of banality 16. Complacency and the Ordinary 17. But Is It an Illusion? 18. Appearances Seem to Matter 19. What We Are Attached To

About the author

Before retiring in 2018, Peter King worked at De Montfort University for 25 years teaching and researching on housing and public policy. He is the author of 22 books including Thinking on Housing (2017), The Principles of Housing (2015), In Dwelling (2008), The Common Place (2005) and Private Dwelling (2004), all published by Routledge.

Product details

• Authors: Peter King
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032252773
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225277-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life