RT Journal Article
SR 00
A1 Zupančič, Domen
T1 INSTITUTIONAL HOMES: THE EVOLUTION OF OPEN SPACE IN THE CASE OF SOME WORKERS' COLONIES IN HISTORY
JF FACTA UNIVERSITATIS 
YR 2012
FD 2012
VO 8
IS 10
SP 1
OP 12
K1 workers’ colonies
K1 residential structures
K1 industrial revolution
K1 urban planning
K1 economics
K1 architectural management
K1 housing
K1 workers' housing
K1 houses
K1 dwellings
K1 case studies
K1 industrial heritage
K1 industrial towns
K1 comparative analysis
K1 Slovenia
K1 Egypt
K1 Scotland
K1 France
AB This is a critical review of examples of how workers’ settlements have been organised throughout history. I examine some examples of workers’ settlements from the perspective of spatial organisation, architectural economics and urban design. The hypothesis is that workers’ dwellings have not basically changed since the earliest civilisations. The role of workers’ dwellings has been constantly on the fringes of  spatial organisation. Generally, workers as a class were not considered an integral part of business management. Workers are part of any industrialised process and can not be overlooked in an architectural analysis of their dwellings.   The conclusions of the paper are oriented from praxis to theory. Analogies from the past to the present are presented, with a set of sketches in which the theory of spatial organisation, architectural economics and urban design patterns may be evident.  
PB University of Niš, Serbia
SN 0354 – 4605 
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1368/
UL http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/aace/aace.html