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Although humble in their function, these carefully crafted barns
have shaped the lives of Mainers for centuries. Built long before
the days of plastic and plywood, the barns have survived for
generations, each with a story to tell. In Bridgton, one barn
offered comfort to a sixteen-year-old boy when his father was
injured. Another New Gloucester barn was so important to one family
that its likeness was engraved on their headstones. Some owners
said they would rather see their houses burn than their barns, and
others have dedicated their lives and livelihoods to restoring and
preserving these buildings. From modest English to grand Victorian,
Don Perkins examines the structures, origins and evolution of
Maine's barns, demonstrating the vital and precious role they play
in people's lives.
Challenging existing political analyses of the state of emergency
in Turkey, this volume argues that such states are not merely
predetermined by policy and legislation but are produced,
regulated, distributed and contested through the built environment
in both embodied and symbolic ways. Contributors use empirical
critical-spatial research carried out in Turkey over the past
decade, exploring heritage, displacement and catastrophes.
Contributing to the broader literature on the related concepts of
exception, risk, crisis and uncertainty, the book discusses the
ways in which these phenomena shape and are shaped by the built
environment, and provides context-specific empirical substance to
it by focusing on contemporary Turkey. In so doing, it offers
nuanced insight into the debate around emergency as well as into
recent urban-architectural affairs in Turkey.
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