Unfriendly architecture: Using observations of inuit spatial behavior to design culturally sustaining houses in Arctic Canada

Housing Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-128

  Dawson, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Architecture; Human agency; Inuit; Northern housing; Space syntax

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING; HOUSING POLICY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 39049094178     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673030701731258     Document Type: Article

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