Prescribed texts review

Independent Study:

Understanding Home:
    Concepts:

• Home is a multidimensional concept
• Home as a haven
• Defining home
• Importance of a home

"To understand home we must define it...as a dwelling?...organization?...habitat/environment?:
"home touches so centrally on our lives"
"defining home in other languages...in German it means to lie down or something dear and beloved"
"The house of everyman is to him as his castle and fortress as well as his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose"
"contemporary analysis on privacy, intimacy, domesticity and comfort"

Home the territorial core:
    Concepts:

• 'the three territorial triad' - control of space through personalization and defense of space
• House as activity focus
• Home and journey
• Public and private

"activities in the home distract from outside threats"
"anxiety between home habitant and visitor when crossing public and private domains"
"much less defensible open planning of Western subdivisions"
"personalization promotes both security and identity"
"home is usually identified with a particular physical space"
"Home is the most significant of the many space-time group complexes"
"Home is thus a fixed reference point for the structuring of reality"
"A home may smother an individual who is unable to leave it for considerable periods"