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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kim Dovey (Melbourne University, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Volume: 5 Weight: 0.642kg ISBN: 9780415416344ISBN 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 ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 ComplicityReviewsOf 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 InformationKim 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |