1st Edition

Becoming Places Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

By Kim Dovey Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step... Read more

Part 1: Ideas  1. Making Sense of Place  2. Place as Assemblage  3. Silent Complicities  4. Limits of Critical Architecture  Part 2: Places  5. Slippery Characters: Defending and Creating Place Identities (with Ian Woodcock and Stephen Wood)  6. Becoming Prosperous: Informal Urbanism in Yogyakarta (with Wiryono Rhajo)  7.  Urbanising Architecture: Koolhaas and Spatial Segmentarity  8. Open Court: Transparency and Legitimation in the Courthouse  9. Safety Becomes Danger: Drug-Use in Public Space (with John Fitzgerald)  10. New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square (with Eka Permanasari)  11. Urban Slippage: Smooth and Striated Streetscapes in Bangkok (with Kasama Polakit)

Biography

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published and broadcast widely on issues of place and ideology including the book Fluid City (Routledge, 2005) and Framing Places (Routledge, second edition 2008).