6000 Years of Housing Revised & Expanded : W. W. Norton & Company : 9780393731200 : 0393731200 : 12 Aug 2003 : [T]his fascinating survey...any designer or builder who deals with housing would find a use for this book.' ?Fine Homebuilding'This is as essential reference to anyone in the field of housing, beautifully illustrated in the hand of the author.' ?Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward-looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world, India, China, and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, however, outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World.In