256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities. These silent framings of everyday life also mediate... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Frames of Theorization 1. Power 2. Program 3. Text 4. Place Part 2: Centres of Power 5. Take Your Breath Away: Berlin 6. Hidden Power: Beijing 7. Paths to Democracy: Bangkok Part 3: Global Types 8. Tall Storeys: The Corporate Tower 9. Inverted City: The Shopping Mall 10. Domestic Desires: House and Enclave Part 4: Localities 11. A Sign for the Twenty-First Century: Euralille 12. Rust and Irony: Rottnest Island 13. Afterword: Liberty and Complicity
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).
Of the1st edition:
'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000
'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area
