The urban housing handbook / Eric Firley and Caroline Stahl.

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Siheyuan ; Non-private living: a counter model for siheyuan in Beijing: Moriyama house, Tokyo -- Casa Chorizo ; The private home as the basic element of the city block: Casa 127 -- Patio house ; The facade acting as interface, Patio Island, Ypenburg -- Dar and Riad ; Courtyard houses in an artificial landscape: the Copenhagen mountain dwelling -- Kyo-machiya ; Furniture in the yard: Rue de Suisse, Paris -- Mini house ; The house in the middle of its neighbourhood or the world in the house: Japanese single-family houses -- Tower house ; The vertical floor plan: Tokyo tower house -- Quadruple Villa ; Example of living style: Quadruple Villa, Mulhouse -- Chinese Shophouse ; Draftless design: Hanoi space block -- Terrace house with mews ; Two faces of a house: Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge -- Front garden house ; A break in style revealed: compound in Rue de la Colonie, Paris -- Terrace house ; Terraced open space: houses in Graz and Les Herbiers --^ Longtang house ; Spotlight on collective living: Seijo Garden Courts -- Cité ; The parasite in the block: Vivendas entre Medianeras, Seville -- Courtyards and passages : The interrupted spatial sequence of faubourg architecture: apartments and studios in Rue de Charonne in Paris -- Hamburger Terrassen (Falkenried) ; An urban settlement: Dennybrook in London -- Pol house ; The block as miniature city: Carabanchel 11 -- Würfelhaus : Variability within a constant building form: the city villas of Spandau -- Chicago courtyards ; The house in the block: Lisbon Oriente Complex -- Megablock ; The megablock: a continuation of architectural tradition: Charlottehaven -- Town palace (Case de Blocco) : The city as a work of art: the Paris quarter of Massena -- Zinshaus ; Improvement after the fact: multiple dwelling units in Mexico -- Hamburger burg ; Structured living: 'VM Houses' in Copenhagen -- Berlage superblock ; Design rules for the city block: Front de Parc, Barcy, Paris --^ Plex house ; The 'planted' single-family house: Yerba Buena lofts, San Francisco -- Mietskaserne ; Space defined by passage and courtyard: Passage Goix in Paris -- Post-Haussmannian apartment building ; Haussmann light: buildings in Rue Louis Blanc in Paris -- Case de Mig and Casa de Quart ; Selective transparency of the block: Vivendas in El Gramal -- Case de Renta ; New approach to architectural tradition: Buenos Aires -- Early residential towers : A city reinvents itself: high-rise apartments in Vancouver -- Figure ground comparisons -- Process comparison table -- Density comparison table.

Review: "Focusing on the relationship between housing and the urban block, The Urban Housing Handbook is a vital design and analysis tool for architects, building professionals and students interested in the fabric of our cities. It outlines the characteristics of some of the most fascinating and prominent housing types from around the world. The book features a selection of 30 housing types encompassing typologies as geographically diverse as: Parisian and Barcelonian Fin-de-Siecle apartment buildings; a patio house in Quito in Ecuador; longtangs in Shanghai; and the early residential towers of Manhattan."--Jacket.