TY - BOOK AU - Bourdier,Jean-Paul AU - AlSayyad,Nezar ED - International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. TI - Dwellings, settlements, and tradition: cross-cultural perspectives SN - 0819175234 (alk. paper) AV - GN413 .D84 1989 U1 - 307.14 DWE 20 PY - 1989/// CY - Lanham, Berkeley, CA PB - University Press of America, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments KW - Dwellings KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Human settlements KW - Vernacular architecture N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Dwellings, settlements and tradition / Jean-Paul Bourdier and Nezar AlSayyad -- Traditional : what does it mean? / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Reading tradition / Jean-Paul Bourdier -- Handed down architecture : tradition and transmission / Paul Oliver -- On the attributes of tradition / Amos Rapoport -- Junctions of town and country / Spiro Kostof -- Permanence of rural settlements in Thai towns / Sophie Clement-Charpentier -- The interpenetration of high and folk traditions in Malta / Jo Tonna -- The place of no-thingness : the Japanese house and the oriental world views of the Japanese / Botond Bognar -- Center and duality in the Javanese dwelling / Gunawan Tjahjono -- The design of the great chief's house in South Nias, Indonesia / Jerome Feldman -- The meaning of residence in traditional Hindu society / Ismet Khambatta -- Sacred space, ritual and the traditional Greek house / Eleftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser. Siting and general organization of traditional Korean settlements / Sang Hae Lee -- Speaking to and talking about : Maori architecture / Michael Linzey -- Moral architecture : beauty and ethics in Batammaliba building design / Suzanne Preston Blier -- The oasis of Farafra in the eyes of its inhabitants / Amr Abdel Kawi -- Colonial cottage settlements in Tasmania / John Webster -- The emergence of the central hall house-type in the context of nineteenth-century Palestine / A.R. Fuchs and M. Meyer-Brodnitz -- The hybrid metropolis : Western influences in India / Norma Evenson -- Settlement and resettlement in Umm Qeis : spatial organization of a Jordanian village / Seteney Shami -- Migration, tradition and change in some Vernacular architectures of Indonesia / Roxanne Waterson -- Traditional versus modern housing in Botswana : an analysis from the user's perspective / Anita Larsson. Dualities in the study of traditional dwellings and settlements / Nezar AlSayyad ER -