Townhouses designed especially for single-parent families, with a "tot-lot" and a common laundry, are proliferating. For residents of the Sun City retirement community in Arizona, houses arranged in giant concentric circles create a framework of interrelatedness. Housing aimed at well-defined segments of the population as a trend in the American housing industry is explored in this survey. Based on his travels across the country, Langdon's report celebrates, in words and photographs, the diversity of contemporary houses--from mobile homes to modular Colonials, from superinsulated and passive-solar designs to mixed-use urban complexes. Langdon also describes the growing popularity of restoration projects, architects' and planners' battles with government regulations and the conversion of schools and factories into apartments. ISBN 0-941434-96-6: $29.95 (For use only in the library).
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