Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life

by Howard Davis

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building.

The merchant's house in northern European cities, the Asian shophouse, the apartment building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415783178
• ISBN13: 9780415783170
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.4"