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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community

Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community

Behzadfar, Mostafa
Sedaghati, Atefeh

Hardcover

General ArchitectureUnited States Politics

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 17, 2026

ISBN10: 1041359918
ISBN13: 9781041359913
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 17 2026
Pages: 169
Language: English

Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community introduces a holistic understanding of smart living that values both efficiency and empathy, repositioning the idea of smart housing within a human-centered, culturally grounded, and socially aware framework.

In recent decades, the notion of smart housing has evolved into a dominant paradigm within architecture, planning, and urban innovation. Yet, much of this discourse remains narrowly focused on technological efficiency, automation, and energy optimization. This book challenges this limited view by exploring the deeper layers of what it truly means for a home, and by extension, a community, to be smart. It argues that genuine intelligence in housing cannot be reduced to devices, data, or digital connectivity alone but must also encompass cultural meaning, social interaction, and emotional attachment. The book unfolds in three analytical layers: 1. The house: as an individual unit of living, exploring its psychological, spatial, and sensory meanings; 2. The home: as a lived and emotional space, shaped by identity, memory, and self-expression; 3. Housing and neighborhood: as collective systems of life, where cultural intelligence and everyday practices sustain social cohesion. The book draws inspiration from real-world examples including the Dutch woonerf and field observations from Bojnord, Iran, to show how the idea of everyday intelligence already exists within lived social patterns. These cases illustrate that true smartness may arise not only from technology but from community behavior, shared awareness, and mutual care.

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