Tiny House Movement - Challenging Our Consumer Culture

This book features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, which Tracey Harris uses to explore how the tiny house movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home.

Sommario

Introduction
Chapter 1: Is Bigger Really Better?
Chapter 2: What is the Tiny House Movement?
Chapter 3: When Less Equals More
Chapter 4: Challenging our Consumer Lifestyle
Chapter 5: Criticisms and Critiques of the Tiny House Movement
Chapter 6: From NIMBY to YIMBY!
Appendix
Bibliography

Info autore

Tracey Harris is assistant professor of sociology at Cape Breton University.

Riassunto

This book features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, which the author uses to explore how the tiny house movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tracey Harris, Harris Tracey Harris
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781498557474
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5747-4
• Pagine: 138
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Urban communities, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings