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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single,(...)
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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single,(...)
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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single, invaluable volume. 30 illustrations.
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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single, invaluable volume. 30 illustrations.
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April 2007, New York London
April 2007, New York London
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Architectural Theory
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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August 2007, Berkley Los Angeles London
August 2007, Berkley Los Angeles London
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Urban Fortunes : The political economy of place
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
Urban Fortunes : The political economy of place
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
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August 2007, Berkley Los Angeles London
August 2007, Berkley Los Angeles London
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Urban Theory
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou(...)
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou(...)
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Jane Jacobs : urban visionary
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou explores this incisive, passionately engaged mind and celebrates Jacobs' contributions to the debates that have directly informed how we live today. From the controversy that erupted when Jacobs dared to take on conventional urban planning wisdom in the 1960s to Jacobs'immigration to Canada, Alexiou examines the work of this inspirational thinker, writer, and activist.
Jane Jacobs : urban visionary
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou explores this incisive, passionately engaged mind and celebrates Jacobs' contributions to the debates that have directly informed how we live today. From the controversy that erupted when Jacobs dared to take on conventional urban planning wisdom in the 1960s to Jacobs'immigration to Canada, Alexiou examines the work of this inspirational thinker, writer, and activist.
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April 2007, Toronto
April 2007, Toronto
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Urban Theory
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
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Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism : Evil Paradises
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism : Evil Paradises
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
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June 2007, New York
June 2007, New York
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Urban Theory
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the(...)
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the(...)
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Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman, second edition
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of beliefs that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Studying a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events — and the public awareness of them — not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans saw, and continue to see, the city.
Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman, second edition
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of beliefs that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Studying a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events — and the public awareness of them — not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans saw, and continue to see, the city.
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October 2007, Chicago, London
October 2007, Chicago, London
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Architecture & mobility
Architecture & mobility
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Finizio’s theme is one we can see on the streets: having changed the 19th-century city into a “metropolis” of suburbs and highways, the car as an object is, in turn, changing in relation to the modern city. A leading Italian design professional, Finizio has gathered an international symposium of architects to explore how urban planning, architecture, and design ideas can(...)
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Finizio’s theme is one we can see on the streets: having changed the 19th-century city into a “metropolis” of suburbs and highways, the car as an object is, in turn, changing in relation to the modern city. A leading Italian design professional, Finizio has gathered an international symposium of architects to explore how urban planning, architecture, and design ideas can(...)
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Architecture & mobility
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Finizio’s theme is one we can see on the streets: having changed the 19th-century city into a “metropolis” of suburbs and highways, the car as an object is, in turn, changing in relation to the modern city. A leading Italian design professional, Finizio has gathered an international symposium of architects to explore how urban planning, architecture, and design ideas can create a new design philosophy for the automobile as a sort of domestic moving space that interacts with the new urban environment. This richly illustrated book focuses on the relationship between the static city and “mobile architecture” of the car through the works of some of the most important contemporary international architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhass, Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Alessandro Mendini.This is an urgent, exciting design mission that finally deals with how thinking about the urban car must coevolve in profound new ways.
Architecture & mobility
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Finizio’s theme is one we can see on the streets: having changed the 19th-century city into a “metropolis” of suburbs and highways, the car as an object is, in turn, changing in relation to the modern city. A leading Italian design professional, Finizio has gathered an international symposium of architects to explore how urban planning, architecture, and design ideas can create a new design philosophy for the automobile as a sort of domestic moving space that interacts with the new urban environment. This richly illustrated book focuses on the relationship between the static city and “mobile architecture” of the car through the works of some of the most important contemporary international architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhass, Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas, and Alessandro Mendini.This is an urgent, exciting design mission that finally deals with how thinking about the urban car must coevolve in profound new ways.
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October 2007, New York
October 2007, New York
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and(...)
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and(...)
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Down in the dumps: place, modernity, american depression
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of �depressive modernity,� an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity�capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration�are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill. Such a modernity is not stagnant or fixed, nor immobile, but is constituted by an instantaneous unstaging of desire, territory, language, and memory that reveals itself in the shimmering of place. An interpretive bricolage that draws on an unlikely archive of 1930s detritus�office memos, scribbled manuscripts, scrapbooks, ruined photographs, newspaper clippings, glass eyes, incinerated stage sets, pulp novels, and junk washed ashore�Down in the Dumps escorts its readers through Reno�s 1930s divorce factory, where couples from across the United States came to quickly dissolve matrimonial bonds; Key West�s multilingual salvage economy and the island that became the center of an ideological tug-of-war between the American New Deal government and a politically fraught Caribbean; post-Renaissance Harlem, in the process of memorializing, remembering, grieving and rewriting a modernity that had already passed; and Studio-era Hollywood, Nathanael West�s �dump of dreams,� in which the introduction of sound film and shifts in art direction began to transform how Americans understood place-making and even being itself. A coda on Alcatraz and the Pentagon brings the book into the present, exploring how American Depression comes to bear on post-9/11 America.
Down in the dumps: place, modernity, american depression
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of �depressive modernity,� an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity�capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration�are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill. Such a modernity is not stagnant or fixed, nor immobile, but is constituted by an instantaneous unstaging of desire, territory, language, and memory that reveals itself in the shimmering of place. An interpretive bricolage that draws on an unlikely archive of 1930s detritus�office memos, scribbled manuscripts, scrapbooks, ruined photographs, newspaper clippings, glass eyes, incinerated stage sets, pulp novels, and junk washed ashore�Down in the Dumps escorts its readers through Reno�s 1930s divorce factory, where couples from across the United States came to quickly dissolve matrimonial bonds; Key West�s multilingual salvage economy and the island that became the center of an ideological tug-of-war between the American New Deal government and a politically fraught Caribbean; post-Renaissance Harlem, in the process of memorializing, remembering, grieving and rewriting a modernity that had already passed; and Studio-era Hollywood, Nathanael West�s �dump of dreams,� in which the introduction of sound film and shifts in art direction began to transform how Americans understood place-making and even being itself. A coda on Alcatraz and the Pentagon brings the book into the present, exploring how American Depression comes to bear on post-9/11 America.
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January 2008, Durham, London
January 2008, Durham, London
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Avant - Garde Fascism
Avant - Garde Fascism
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Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist(...)
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Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist(...)
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Avant - Garde Fascism
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Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist painter Maurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, the sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, the “New Vision” photographer Germaine Krull, and the fauve Maurice Vlaminck.
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Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and 1939, a surprising array of modernists were implicated in this project, including such well-known figures as the symbolist painter Maurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, the sculptors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol, the “New Vision” photographer Germaine Krull, and the fauve Maurice Vlaminck.
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September 2007, Durham London
September 2007, Durham London
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Architectural Theory
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Alabaster Cities : Urban
Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.(...)
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.(...)
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Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities. Drawing on numerous studies, first-hand anecdotes, census figures, and other statistical data, Short’s work addresses the globalization of U.S. cities, the increased polarization of urban life in the U.S., the role of civic engagement, and the huge role played by the public sector in shaping the character of cities. With deft analysis the author weaves together the themes of urban renewal, suburbanization and metropolitan fragmentation, race and ethnicity, and immigration, presenting a fascinating and highly readable account of the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities. Drawing on numerous studies, first-hand anecdotes, census figures, and other statistical data, Short’s work addresses the globalization of U.S. cities, the increased polarization of urban life in the U.S., the role of civic engagement, and the huge role played by the public sector in shaping the character of cities. With deft analysis the author weaves together the themes of urban renewal, suburbanization and metropolitan fragmentation, race and ethnicity, and immigration, presenting a fascinating and highly readable account of the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century.
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November 2006, New York
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines - art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology - Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and(...)
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines - art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology - Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and(...)
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At home : An anthroplogy of domestic space
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines - art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology - Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and social standing. At Home takes an in-depth anthropological look at how different cultures use their homes as a visual model of the culture's social structure.
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines - art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology - Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and social standing. At Home takes an in-depth anthropological look at how different cultures use their homes as a visual model of the culture's social structure.
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October 2006, Syracuse
October 2006, Syracuse
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