Housing Imaginations assignment 2 - 2017 Feb. (updated and confirmed)


Assignment 2: Essay (word count is 2500 – 3000 words)

This is an essay of 2500 – 3000 words. Choose from one of the following questions:

1.     Critically discuss the assertion by Doreen Massey (1992) that homes, like all ‘places’, are open to, and created by, the social relations which extend beyond them.

2.     To what extent does the concept of ‘place’ provide a useful; basis for understanding the dynamics and conflicts surrounding home-places?


3.     In what ways is the housing imagination gendered and classed?

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