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Political landscapes of capital cities /

"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-mad...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956- (Editor ), Bogdanović, Jelena, 1973- (Editor ), Guzmán, Eulogio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović
  • Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas
  • The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović
  • Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari
  • Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich
  • The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán
  • Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey
  • La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat
  • Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor
  • Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.