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1. New Practices - New Pedagogies

   A Reader

   Edited by Malcolm Miles

   Series: Innovations in Art and Design

   With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. Influential and knowledgable leaders in the field debate how arts education - particularly in visual art - has changed to meet new...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Urban Utopias

   The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

   By Malcolm Miles

   Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society...

   Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge
3. Cities and Cultures

   By Malcolm Miles

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts,...

   Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
4. Urban Avant-Gardes

   Art, Architecture and Change

   By Malcolm Miles

   Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted...

   Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge
5. The City Cultures Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Iain Borden, Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles

   Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

   Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader provides an accessible overview of the diverse material on the interface between cities and...

   Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
6. Urban Futures

   Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

   Edited by Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles

   Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which...

   Published December 4th 2002 by Routledge
7. Art, Space and the City

   By Malcolm Miles

   Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be...

   Published September 3rd 1997 by Routledge