Title & Author:

Architecture and justice : judicial meanings in the public realm / edited by Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley, USA, Nicholas Temple, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Renée Tobe, University of East London, UK.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]

Description:

xxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Prisons and prison cells : The aesthetics and anaesthetics of prison architecture / Yvonne Jewkes -- Architecture and contested space in the development of the modern prison / Helen Johnston -- A simple idea in architecture: on the principles of projecting prisons / Gabriela Świtek -- The watchman in the vineyard: historical traces of judicial and punitive practices in Lincoln / Nicholas Temple -- Part 2. Courthouses and courtrooms : Back to the future?: The challenge of the past for courthouses of tomorrow / Linda Mulcahy -- Lecture theatre: echoes of the Palais de Justice in legal education / Keith Crawford -- Virtual courts and putting 'summary' back into 'summary justice': merely brief, or unjust? / Emma Rowden -- Constitution Hill: just space or space of justice? / Zarina Patel and Clinton David van der Merwe -- The architecture and operation of the Imperial Chinese yamen / Peter Blundell Jones -- Part 3. Civic and societal order : Violent stone: the city of dialectical justice: three tales from court / Jonathan Charley -- The spatial registers of justice / Richard Patterson -- Gimme shelter: mass incarceration and the criminology of the housing boom / Jonathan Simon -- Drawing conclusions: Fort Rupert, British Columbia in 1863 / John Bass -- Repurposing with a vengeance: a dance of restrained acts towards justice / Catherine Hamel -- Part 4. Philosophical questions of propriety : Architecture, justice, conflict, measure / Peter Carl -- Politikē Aretē: or the origins of civic justice / Renée Tobe -- Ensemble performances: architects and justice in Athenian drama / Lisa Landrum -- The architecture of Lincoln Cathedral and the institution of justice / John Hendrix -- Politics and architecture / Raymond Geuss.

ISBN:

9781409431732 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409431738 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781409431749
1409431746 (ebook)
9781409431749 (ebook)

Subject:

Public architecture.
Architecture and state.
Justice, Administration of.
Architecture publique.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale.

Added entries:

Simon, Jonathan, 1959- editor.
Temple, Nicholas, editor.
Tobe, Renée, editor.
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283306
Call No.: BIB 221375
Status: External loan