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climates discovered great new resources of personal energy.
New means of heating permitted the manufacture of glass and
the enlargement of living quarters and the raising of ceilings.
The Burgher house of the Renaissance became at once
bedroom, kitchen, workshop, and sale outlet.
Once housing is seen as group (or corporate) clothing
and heat control, the new means of heating can be understood
as causing change in spatial form. Lighting, however, is almost
as decisive as heating in causing these changes in architectural
and city spaces. That is the reason why the story of glass is so
closely related to the history of housing. The story of the mirror
is a main chapter in the history of dress and manners and the
sense of the self.
Recently an imaginative school principal in a slum area