King, Anthony D. The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.
King records the spread of the Bungalow as a popular housing type by discussing the history of the form and the term within the larger contexts of economic, social and cultural trends. He traces the origins of the housing type to Bengali peasant dwellings which were adapted for British merchants. He credits imperialism with encouraging the importation of the bungalow to Britain and the re-exportation of the form to other colonial territories. He credits widespread industrialization, coinciding with the development of a large middle class, with distributing bungalows (including prefab units) throughout England and the U. S. He discusses adaptations made to the building type to suit each locale and suggests how the bungalow, in turn, altered societies. King concludes with speculation on the relationship between the bungalow housing type, economic ideology and urban form. [P. Schwab]