ancient cities

956 Veranda
and Normandy, from where they reached the
Americas, offering ready references for existing
forms. With the processes of exchange characteristic
of cultural contact zones, new veranda forms found
their way back to Africa, South Asia, and Europe.
The current influence of the veranda is perhaps
most discernible in the southern United States
where the porch still exerts a strong influence on
the cultural imagination and built environment. Its
significance in everyday life engages questions of
race, gender, and class because of its unique physical
and psychological liminality.
Itohan Osayimwese
See also Bungalow; Colonial City
Further Readings
Donlon, Jocelyn. 2001. Swinging in Place: Porch Life in
Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press.
Edwards, Jay. 1989. “The Complex Origins of the
American Domestic Piazza-Verandah-Gallery.”
Material Culture 21(2):2–58.
King, Anthony. 1984. The Bungalow: The Production of
a Global Culture. London: Routledge.