Courtyard House

Using an innovative architectural and social science approach this book examines the political economic social and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys interviews with residents architects and planners time diaries drawings photos planning documents observation notes and real estate brochures the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another a concept that is universally applicable. It provides a holistic view encompassing eastern and western tangible and intangible cultures in the theorization of 'cultural sustainability'.