Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form

Author:   Kim Dovey (Melbourne University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   5
ISBN:  

9780415416344


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 January 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kim Dovey (Melbourne University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9780415416344


ISBN 10:   0415416345
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 January 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Frames of Theorization 1. Power 2. Program 3. Text 4. Place Part 2: Centres of Power 5. Take Your Breath Away: Berlin 6. Hidden Power: Beijing 7. Paths to Democracy: Bangkok Part 3: Global Types 8. Tall Storeys: The Corporate Tower 9. Inverted City: The Shopping Mall 10. Domestic Desires: House and Enclave Part 4: Localities 11. A Sign for the Twenty-First Century: Euralille 12. Rust and Irony: Rottnest Island 13. Afterword: Liberty and Complicity

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Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Author Information

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published and broadcast widely on issues of place and ideology including the book Fluid City (Routledge 2005).

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