Buildings and Society

Anthony D King is Associate Senior Research fellow in Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brunel University. He has previously held research and teaching posts at the Universities of Leicester, London. Washington, South Carolina and the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, where he was Visiting Professor in Social Sciences

• Introduction Part I 1 A convenient place to get rid of inconvenient people: the Victorian lunatic asylum 2 The modern hospital in England and France: the social and medical uses of architecture 3 Design and reform: the ‘separate system’ in the nineteenth-century English prison Part II 4 The Hindu temple in south India 5 The apartment house in urban America Part III 6 A time for space and a space for time: the social production of the vacation house 7 Places of refreshment in the nineteenth-century city 8 Office buildings and organisational change Part IV 9 Vernacular architecture and the cultural determinants of form

... A fascinating book ...' - Sean French, The Sunday Times`This is a book I eagerly recommend to others, assign in courses, and use in myown research. It is a fine collection of illustrated essays on the social history of designed environments.' - Karen A. Franck, Contemporary Sociology