Becoming Places - Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung Deals with the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are. Drawing on the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu, this book analyzes the sense of place as socio-spatial assemblage and as embodied habitus, through a broad range of case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 )

Product details

• Authors: Kim Dovey, Kim (Melbourne University Dovey, Dovey Kim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2009
• EAN: 9780415416375
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41637-5
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Sociology, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life