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By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer firmly established himself as the freshest and most interesting writer on the subject. His articles, which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong personal point of view, literary style, and even humor, not always attributes associated with writing about(...)
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By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer firmly established himself as the freshest and most interesting writer on the subject. His articles, which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong personal point of view, literary style, and even humor, not always attributes associated with writing about(...)
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There's nothing funny about design
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By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer firmly established himself as the freshest and most interesting writer on the subject. His articles, which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong personal point of view, literary style, and even humor, not always attributes associated with writing about design. In this collection of essays, Barringer’s first, he wonders why drug names have so many X’s in them, ponders the rise of gory DVD covers, and ruminates on his father’s business card collection, pythons, and the human skull – proving again and again that design is everywhere you look for it, (but may not have seen) without the powerful magnifying lens of this talented and exciting observer and writer.
There's nothing funny about design
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By winning the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing, David Barringer firmly established himself as the freshest and most interesting writer on the subject. His articles, which have appeared in publications from Print to Emigre, are notable for his strong personal point of view, literary style, and even humor, not always attributes associated with writing about design. In this collection of essays, Barringer’s first, he wonders why drug names have so many X’s in them, ponders the rise of gory DVD covers, and ruminates on his father’s business card collection, pythons, and the human skull – proving again and again that design is everywhere you look for it, (but may not have seen) without the powerful magnifying lens of this talented and exciting observer and writer.
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January 2009
January 2009
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
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Improvisations on urbanity: Trendy pragmatism in a climate of change
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
Improvisations on urbanity: Trendy pragmatism in a climate of change
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
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January 2009
January 2009
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The New York 2030 notebook
The New York 2030 notebook
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These(...)
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These(...)
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The New York 2030 notebook
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These help to put the plan into some context, and precede a section of critical and analytical responses by prominent authors, designers, and theorists commissioned since. Contributors include Richard Sennett, Michael Sorkin, James Wines, Sharon Zukin, Marshall Berman, Winka Dubbeldam, Teddy Cruz, and Stephen Witherford alongside a number of other distinguished figures.
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These help to put the plan into some context, and precede a section of critical and analytical responses by prominent authors, designers, and theorists commissioned since. Contributors include Richard Sennett, Michael Sorkin, James Wines, Sharon Zukin, Marshall Berman, Winka Dubbeldam, Teddy Cruz, and Stephen Witherford alongside a number of other distinguished figures.
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October 2008, New York
October 2008, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated(...)
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated(...)
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Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy.
Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom
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Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy.
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July 2009
July 2009
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi–sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. ‘The Thinking Hand’ is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity(...)
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In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi–sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. ‘The Thinking Hand’ is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity(...)
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The thinking hand: existential and embodied wisdom in architecture
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In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi–sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. ‘The Thinking Hand’ is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Prevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non–conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.
The thinking hand: existential and embodied wisdom in architecture
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In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi–sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. ‘The Thinking Hand’ is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Prevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non–conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.
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June 2009
June 2009
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These(...)
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These(...)
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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March 2009, Washington, D.C., Baltimore
March 2009, Washington, D.C., Baltimore
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Cities at the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts.
Cities at the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts.
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March 2009, Washington, D.C., Baltimore
March 2009, Washington, D.C., Baltimore
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Urban Theory
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal(...)
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal(...)
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The nature of cities : ecological visions and the American urban professions, 1920-1960
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.
The nature of cities : ecological visions and the American urban professions, 1920-1960
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.
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June 2009
June 2009
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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La ville-paysage
La ville-paysage
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L'urbanisation accélérée de notre globe lance un défi inédit aux disciplines relatives à la transformation du cadre de vie. Aménagement du territoire, urbanisme et architecture sont confrontés à l'installation de nouvelles populations dans des territoires de plus en plus étendus, à l'artificialisation accrue du sol, à la domestication de la nature. Le phénomène, critiqué(...)
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L'urbanisation accélérée de notre globe lance un défi inédit aux disciplines relatives à la transformation du cadre de vie. Aménagement du territoire, urbanisme et architecture sont confrontés à l'installation de nouvelles populations dans des territoires de plus en plus étendus, à l'artificialisation accrue du sol, à la domestication de la nature. Le phénomène, critiqué(...)
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La ville-paysage
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L'urbanisation accélérée de notre globe lance un défi inédit aux disciplines relatives à la transformation du cadre de vie. Aménagement du territoire, urbanisme et architecture sont confrontés à l'installation de nouvelles populations dans des territoires de plus en plus étendus, à l'artificialisation accrue du sol, à la domestication de la nature. Le phénomène, critiqué pour ses désavantages écologiques et exorcisé comme copie conforme de l'urban sprawl américain, est néanmoins fermement ancré dans le passé de la ville européenne. Au fait, la dissolution urbaine s'avère avant tout un projet spatial finement élaboré, une vision de société élaborée au sein de notre modernité. Cet ouvrage entreprend sa mise en perspective, notamment à travers l'œuvre de Rudolf Schwarz (1897-1962), personnalité exceptionnelle dans l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Son projet de Stadtlandschaft, visant à la fois une fusion de la ville dans la nature et la citadinité étalée dans l'ensemble du territoire, exemplifie la recherche pour la forme d'une véritable et durable ville-paysage.
La ville-paysage
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L'urbanisation accélérée de notre globe lance un défi inédit aux disciplines relatives à la transformation du cadre de vie. Aménagement du territoire, urbanisme et architecture sont confrontés à l'installation de nouvelles populations dans des territoires de plus en plus étendus, à l'artificialisation accrue du sol, à la domestication de la nature. Le phénomène, critiqué pour ses désavantages écologiques et exorcisé comme copie conforme de l'urban sprawl américain, est néanmoins fermement ancré dans le passé de la ville européenne. Au fait, la dissolution urbaine s'avère avant tout un projet spatial finement élaboré, une vision de société élaborée au sein de notre modernité. Cet ouvrage entreprend sa mise en perspective, notamment à travers l'œuvre de Rudolf Schwarz (1897-1962), personnalité exceptionnelle dans l'histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Son projet de Stadtlandschaft, visant à la fois une fusion de la ville dans la nature et la citadinité étalée dans l'ensemble du territoire, exemplifie la recherche pour la forme d'une véritable et durable ville-paysage.
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November 2008
November 2008
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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Criticism and truth
Criticism and truth
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Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's sur Racine, this polemic answers many of the charges brought against French new criticism by conservative, academic, 19th-century-oriented critics: lack of "objectivity," fondness for "jargon," indifference to the author's intention, etc. More positively, Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings;(...)
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Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's sur Racine, this polemic answers many of the charges brought against French new criticism by conservative, academic, 19th-century-oriented critics: lack of "objectivity," fondness for "jargon," indifference to the author's intention, etc. More positively, Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings;(...)
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Criticism and truth
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Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's sur Racine, this polemic answers many of the charges brought against French new criticism by conservative, academic, 19th-century-oriented critics: lack of "objectivity," fondness for "jargon," indifference to the author's intention, etc. More positively, Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings; analysis, based on linguistics, of the structures of possible meanings; the idea of a science of literature; and the dynamics of reading. Though some of the issues are specific to the French literary-academic situation, the bulk of this brief essay is a lively and accessible statement of an important modern critical position that is worth reading.
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Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's sur Racine, this polemic answers many of the charges brought against French new criticism by conservative, academic, 19th-century-oriented critics: lack of "objectivity," fondness for "jargon," indifference to the author's intention, etc. More positively, Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings; analysis, based on linguistics, of the structures of possible meanings; the idea of a science of literature; and the dynamics of reading. Though some of the issues are specific to the French literary-academic situation, the bulk of this brief essay is a lively and accessible statement of an important modern critical position that is worth reading.
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January 1966, Minneapolis
January 1966, Minneapolis
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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The rustle of language
The rustle of language
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"The Rustle of Language" is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text.
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"The Rustle of Language" is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text.
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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January 1900, Berkeley, Los Angeles
January 1900, Berkeley, Los Angeles
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The rustle of language
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"The Rustle of Language" is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text.
The rustle of language
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"The Rustle of Language" is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text.
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January 1900, Berkeley, Los Angeles
January 1900, Berkeley, Los Angeles
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
