Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: This paper comprises the intermediate results of a study of architectural changes made to wartime houses over a fifty-year period in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. Our study shows several basic patterns in the ways people changed their spaces over time. In-depth interviews with longtime occupants and a comprehensive photographie survey of the area show that it was their wartime work experience which encouraged most householders to undertake renovations themselves; that the employment of professionals for extremely difficult jobs followed a kind of “copy-cat” phenomenon which can be mapped throughout the neighbourhood; and that many women supervised the alterations made to their houses.
Source: Ethnologies
DOI: 10.7202/1087485ar
Authors: Annmarie Adams, Pieter Sijpkes
Institution: McGill University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4297968346