Download or read book The Urban Housing Handbook written by Eric Firley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. These range from the London town house to apartments in Chicago and New York, taking in other European, South American, North African, and Asian examples. In each chapter, a housing type is fully explored through a traditional case study and then a more modern example that demonstrates how it has been reinterpreted in a contemporary context.