ABSTRACT
House and home are often conflated: home is the place, dwelling, or shelter in which people live. In Chapter 1 we introduced two criticisms of this conflation of house and home. First, we pointed out that home does not have to be attached to a house; imaginaries of home can be connected to numerous places at multiple geographical scales. Second, we argued that since the connections between house and home are made, analysis needs to demonstrate those connections rather than assume them. How and why do built forms – houses or dwellings – become identified as home? What are their social and spatial characteristics?
