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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reduce | |
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| Determining Need and Designing New Homes | |
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| Quit Jonesing | |
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| How did the Joneses get here? | |
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| Close your eyes | |
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| The joy of nonconformity | |
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| What if you are the Joneses? | |
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| Homo economicus or Homo socialus? | |
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| The proper schools | |
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| Mind the gap | |
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| Friends in common | |
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| Remember the monk | |
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| Choose What You Need | |
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| Build as big as you can? | |
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| What's in your closets? | |
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| Cherish the gift | |
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| Stop the flow at your doorstep | |
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| The long-term storage commitment | |
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| The trip | |
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| Practice your dream | |
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| A home to fit your life | |
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| Build a Glove, Not a Warehouse | |
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| Hear, taste, smell, touch | |
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| Think 3D and 4D | |
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| Detail and pattern | |
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| Alcoves | |
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| Levels | |
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| Ceiling shape and height | |
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| Floor life | |
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| Doors | |
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| Windows | |
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| Wheelchair accessibility | |
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| Wall texture, color, thickness | |
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| Kitchen | |
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| Storage | |
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| Genkan | |
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| The built-ins vs. the movables | |
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| Woodstoves | |
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| Open plan? | |
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| The whole | |
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| Shape | |
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| Setting | |
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| Slowing down | |
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| Pay Off Your Debts | |
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| The death note | |
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| Why do houses cost so much? | |
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| Beat the bank | |
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| Making our land (a little more) free | |
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| Lowering construction costs | |
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| Building to live vs. building to sell | |
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| Do you live in a bank? | |
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| Social security | |
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| Go Outside | |
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| Our friend, the sun | |
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| Freezing? | |
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| Turning indoor air into outdoor air | |
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| The porch | |
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| A room with a view to the sky | |
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| Sleep under the stars | |
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| Bathe in the sun | |
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| The patio plan | |
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| Outdoors, up high | |
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| Down to earth | |
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| Rethink | |
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| Remodeling Existing Housing and Living Better Right Where You Are | |
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| Make Friends with the Past | |
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| Why not build | |
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| Constructing marital harmony | |
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| How did 5.3 people manage to live in 1,000 square feet? | |
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| The comfort of traditional hovels | |
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| De-gentefication | |
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| Empty houses | |
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| Move a house | |
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| The hermit crab home | |
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| Salvage the past | |
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| Live at Home | |
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| A brief history of how we left home | |
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| How important is your resume? | |
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| The discipline of multiuse | |
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| Focus and balance | |
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| Work at home, work alone | |
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| Hire a boss | |
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| Trade with a neighbor | |
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| Time for Sabbath | |
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| Give Up Your Loneliness | |
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| The lonely American | |
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| Coming back together | |
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| Sharing with a partner | |
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| Three generations under one roof | |
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| Making it legal | |
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| Cohousing | |
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| The unexpected pleasures of apartment-complex living | |
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| Is Manhattan an eco-village? | |
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| Reclaim the Commons | |
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| When society is not our friend | |
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| Making common space common | |
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| The silent neighborhood | |
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| Finding common ground | |
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| Go where the wild things are | |
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| Take to the streets | |
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| Tear down the fence | |
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| The busyness of multi-use commons | |
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| Relax | |
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| The Less Tangible Outer and Inner Forces that Shape Our Experience of the Domestic Environment | |
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| Know the Codes | |
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| Are large houses the rule? | |
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| Living below the radar | |
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| Becoming part of the radar | |
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| Variances | |
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| "Form-based" | |
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| "Inclusionary zoning" | |
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| The mandate to legalize granny's flat | |
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| Cottage housing ordinances | |
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| Banning McMansions | |
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| Love Your Children | |
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| What do children really want? | |
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| Stay here, mommy, daddy | |
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| The family bed | |
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| A child's room of her own? | |
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| Sharing rooms | |
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| Children's shrinking range | |
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| The teen-built house | |
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| Is TV a human right? | |
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| The delicate dance of need and greed | |
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| Make a Room of Your Own | |
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| When walls make a space larger | |
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| Shall we run away? | |
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| A corner of the garden | |
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| Retreat inside | |
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| Is beauty a human right? | |
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| The compartmentalized family life | |
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| The friendly creation of sacred space | |
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| Pamper your guests | |
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| Remember the World | |
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| Keeping up with the Lees | |
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| The equalization of condition | |
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| Popping population | |
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| Where will all these people live? | |
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| Envy | |
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| Back home | |
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| The nature of construction | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |