The carport, a nondescript functional space within a majority of Puerto Rican houses, often accommodates different social practices throughout the year. Daily household activities such as laundry and childcare often take place in the carport, but it is also a site for landmark events such as birthdays, social gatherings, and Christmas parties. Designed exclusively for car storage, the carport is often used for everything but the car. In order to understand how this space came to be repurposed, this article focuses on the history of the introduction of the car and carport in Puerto Rico. The transformation of a single-use space into an all-purpose space with distinct cultural signifiers happened soon after the spread of the carport. The hist...
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Research on the commons, and its historical enclosure, has largely restricted itself to rural areas ...
This article focuses on a particular solution of low price housing –the carré mulhousien–. This was ...
The carport, a nondescript functional space within a majority of Puerto Rican houses, often accommod...
Automobiles and summer cottages both play important roles in Ontario society, but neither of them ha...
Through the case of a Puerto Rican public housing project, Las Gladiolas, this article argues that d...
The transformation of the bourgeois home in Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the new Republic of C...
oai:ojs.www.famagazine.it:article/559This short study documents a summary of the cultural and techni...
This article examines the development of the common property housing cooperatives model in Puerto Ri...
Today it would be unimaginable to think of a world without cars. It was this very invention that sin...
Car parking sometimes occupies as much as 40% of urban land, yet manages to go "expected but un...
La Perla, Puerto Rico’s most famous informal settlement, developed since the early 1900s outside the...
This article is a reflection on the relationship between space and the body of its inhabitants throu...
La Perla, Puerto Rico’s most famous informal settlement, developed since the early 1900s outside the...
Puerto Rico currently has an excess of high-priced housing units, partly because of the recession th...
1 archivo PDF (Tipo: Presentación) : principalmente ilustraciones en color ; 38 diapositivas. Más u...
Research on the commons, and its historical enclosure, has largely restricted itself to rural areas ...
This article focuses on a particular solution of low price housing –the carré mulhousien–. This was ...
The carport, a nondescript functional space within a majority of Puerto Rican houses, often accommod...
Automobiles and summer cottages both play important roles in Ontario society, but neither of them ha...
Through the case of a Puerto Rican public housing project, Las Gladiolas, this article argues that d...
The transformation of the bourgeois home in Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the new Republic of C...
oai:ojs.www.famagazine.it:article/559This short study documents a summary of the cultural and techni...
This article examines the development of the common property housing cooperatives model in Puerto Ri...
Today it would be unimaginable to think of a world without cars. It was this very invention that sin...
Car parking sometimes occupies as much as 40% of urban land, yet manages to go "expected but un...
La Perla, Puerto Rico’s most famous informal settlement, developed since the early 1900s outside the...
This article is a reflection on the relationship between space and the body of its inhabitants throu...
La Perla, Puerto Rico’s most famous informal settlement, developed since the early 1900s outside the...
Puerto Rico currently has an excess of high-priced housing units, partly because of the recession th...
1 archivo PDF (Tipo: Presentación) : principalmente ilustraciones en color ; 38 diapositivas. Más u...
Research on the commons, and its historical enclosure, has largely restricted itself to rural areas ...
This article focuses on a particular solution of low price housing –the carré mulhousien–. This was ...