Introduction Part I 1 A convenient place to get rid of inconvenient people: the Victorian lunatic asylum - Andrew Scull 2 The modern hospital in England and France: the social and medical uses of architecture - Adrian Forty 3 Design and reform: the 'separate system' in the nineteenth-century English prison - Heather Tomlinson Part II 4 The Hindu temple in south India - Susan Lewandowski 5 The apartment house in urban America - John Hancock Part III 6 A time for space and a space for time: the social production of the vacation house - Anthony D. King 7 Places of refreshment in the nineteenth-century city - Robert Thorne 8 Office buildings and organizational change - Francis Duffy Part IV 9 Vernacular architecture and the cultural determinants of form - Amos Rapoport