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The unknown city : contesting architecture and social space : a Strangely Familiar project /

Essays on architecture as narrative and urban space as experience and the new geographies they create. The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Borden, Iain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Things, Flows, Filters, Tactics / Iain Borden, Jane Rendell and Joe Kerr / [and others]
  • 2. Twice-Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times Square / M. Christine Boyer
  • 3. That Place Where: Some Thoughts on Memory and the City / Barry Curtis
  • 4. The Uncompleted Monument: London, War, and the Architecture of Remembrance / Joe Kerr
  • 5. From Tribeca to Triburbia: A New Concept of the City / William Menking
  • 6. "Bazaar Beauties" or "Pleasure Is Our Pursuit": A Spatial Story of Exchange / Jane Rendell
  • 7. I Am a Videocam / Philip Tabor
  • 8. Stories of Plain Territory: The Maidan, Calcutta / Helen Thomas
  • 9. Colonialism, Power, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank / Shirley Wong
  • 10. Another Pavement, Another Beach: Skateboarding and the Performative Critique of Architecture / Iain Borden
  • 11. The Royal Festival Hall
  • a "Democratic" Space? / Adrian Forty
  • 12. The Cityscape and the "People" in the Prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada / Tom Gretton
  • 13. The Claremont Road Situation / Sandy McCreery
  • 14. The Lesbian Flaneur / Sally R. Munt
  • 15. The Un(known) City ... or, an Urban Geography of What Lies Buried below the Surface / Steve Pile
  • 16. On Spuistraat: The Contested Streetscape in Amsterdam / Edward W. Soja
  • 17. Home and Away: The Feminist Remapping of Public and Private Space in Victorian London / Lynne Walker
  • 18. Brief Encounters.