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Infrastructure, Wellbeing and the Measurement of Happiness (Paperback): Hoda Mahmoudi, Jenny Roe, Kate Seaman Infrastructure, Wellbeing and the Measurement of Happiness (Paperback)
Hoda Mahmoudi, Jenny Roe, Kate Seaman
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing, by examining the concept from economic, human development, architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies, architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.

Infrastructure, Wellbeing and the Measurement of Happiness (Hardcover): Hoda Mahmoudi, Jenny Roe, Kate Seaman Infrastructure, Wellbeing and the Measurement of Happiness (Hardcover)
Hoda Mahmoudi, Jenny Roe, Kate Seaman
R3,765 Discovery Miles 37 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing, by examining the concept from economic, human development, architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies, architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.

The Political Economy of Land - Rent, Financialization and Resistance (Hardcover): Mika Hyoetylainen, Robert Beauregard The Political Economy of Land - Rent, Financialization and Resistance (Hardcover)
Mika Hyoetylainen, Robert Beauregard
R3,776 Discovery Miles 37 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities. This has included theoretical work on such topics as land rent and property rights as well as empirical studies on property investments, assetization, securitization, and the effects of changing property values on economic growth and the global status of cities. In the field of urban political economy, attention has turned particularly to the financialization of land and the built environment and to the globalization of property ownership, real estate development, and architectural design. This edited volume brings together a collection of original investigations of the current thinking on three broad themes: the assetization of land and buildings, the relationship of land rent to valuation and speculation in the markets for private and public properties, and the different ways in which land functions as a social relation. In order to ground the discussion, each chapter combines a theoretical perspective with empirical evidence. And, to convey a sense of the global nature of these phenomena, the book includes cases from Finland, India, Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, China, and the United States. Although its prime goal is to solidify and extend the political economy of land, this book is also a celebration of the Finnish scholar Anne Haila who was a major contributor to this literature and, specifically, to the work of this book's authors. Prior to her sudden death in 2019, she was a key figure in the discussions that are at the core of the political economy of land: this book, in part, is a public acknowledgement of her contributions.

Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form - Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer (Paperback): Paul Jenkins, Harry... Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form - Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer (Paperback)
Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world rapidly urbanises. Not only have such approaches failed to produce more social order, but it has become clear that the imposition of these ideas in cities of the South cuts across alternative systems of social and cultural order and creates new disorder. Thus, if we are serious about forms of urban order, then it is time to rethink what we mean by order in the first place. As this provocative and timely book shows, what we think of as urban order is partial and restricted, and what we perceive as disorder usually masks underlying orders of social nature. The book is intended for architects, urban designers, planners and urban scholars but also urban policy makers, managers and residents – to consider a different approach to emerging urban space and form, starting from an understanding of the cultural imaginaries and social constructs that underpin the production of most urban fabric, and engaging with these concepts and organisational forms to improve urban life for the majority.

The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education (Hardcover): Diedrich Bruns, Stefanie Hennecke The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education (Hardcover)
Diedrich Bruns, Stefanie Hennecke
R5,851 Discovery Miles 58 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The proposed book maintains the strengths of interdisciplinary and international perspectives. It improves upon relating titles from planning and design fields, as its chapters build upon evidence based studies of education history. Unlike other books and papers published to date, the proposed book gives insights into the roles that educators, education approaches and methods, schools and curricula have and will have for generations of landscape practitioners, researchers and scholars.

A Taste for Gardening - Classed and Gendered Practices (Paperback): Lisa Taylor A Taste for Gardening - Classed and Gendered Practices (Paperback)
Lisa Taylor
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.

Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Paperback): Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Paperback)
Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge. Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries. Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.

University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China (Paperback): Cui Liu University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China (Paperback)
Cui Liu
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The past few decades have seen universities take on a leading role in urban development, actively providing public services beyond teaching and research. The relationship between the university and the city has great influence on the space of university, which is vividly reflected in the process of university spatial development. This process has been particularly evident in China as Chinese universities and cities have been undergoing dramatic transformations since reform in the late 1970s. University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China explores the changing relationship between the university and the city from a spatial perspective. Based on theories and discourses on the production of space, the book analyzes case studies in university spatial development in China at three scales - global, national and local - covering social and urban contexts, the urban transformation, interactions in the development process and the changing dynamic between university and city to propose mutually beneficial planning strategies. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and urban planners in identifying the key factors and relationships in university spatial development using theoretical and empirical data to guide future urban planning.

Design by Fire - Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene (Hardcover): Emily Schlickman, Brett Milligan Design by Fire - Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene (Hardcover)
Emily Schlickman, Brett Milligan
R4,070 Discovery Miles 40 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The topic of wildfire is currently receiving a lot of attention in international media. This is the case right now with conflagrations stretching across the American West. This has also been the case over the past few years with fires in Australia, Chile, Brazil, Portugal, and South Africa, among others. While most publications on this topic unpack one scale of intervention—defensible space for protecting individual homes—this book will study a range of potential tactics, from a watershed management scale down to a molecular scale. It aims to provide a more holistic set of approaches for designers to consider when working between wildland and the built environment. For the case studies, this book will not just draw upon work from professional design firms, as these projects tend to be limited in quantity as well as in scope. Rather, it will draw upon indigenous practices, community-driven projects, and speculative academic proposals to create a larger bank of ideas.

Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities - Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration (Hardcover): Marichela Sepe Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities - Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration (Hardcover)
Marichela Sepe
R3,777 Discovery Miles 37 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by investigating it in different ways. While it is possible to understand why a place is liveable - due to the liveability and health concepts that are being more and more explored in urban studies, and the strong influence coming from other disciplines - it is difficult to design a place that is certain to be healthy and liveable. Accordingly, aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics such as resilience, adaptation, health, and mixed connections, to illustrate the present-day approaches to the analysis and design of healthy places, and in particular the original Healthy Pl@ce Design method, flexible and repeatable in different contexts. The method aims to identify sustainable urban liveability and healthiness and the factors which make places liveable and healthy from users' points of view and identifying design interventions that can enhance or create both urban liveability and health. Emblematic case studies carried out in Europe, Canada and China - Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Madrid, Newcastle-Gateshead, Nice, Dublin, Vancouver and Wuhan - constitute the empirical part of the book, detailed with surveys, questionnaires, images and maps. The theoretical framework - built on contemporary issues - and international case studies make this book both attractive and scientific, adding a new stone on the sustainable city construction and opening it to a particularly wide readership, including scholars, students, administrators and professionals.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians - A Guide for Safe and Walkable Places (Paperback): Frank Markowitz Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians - A Guide for Safe and Walkable Places (Paperback)
Frank Markowitz
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book has an attractive blend of urban planning and policy insights, colorful historic background, intriguing consideration of technological trends, and essential technical background (written for the educated layperson). It has extensive illustrations and case studies. It would be accessible and interesting to those without the engineering expertise required for most similar books on the topic. It addresses safety, personal security, aesthetics, economics, environmental impacts, and sense of place, generally from a policy and planning perspective.

Urban Design Made by Humans - A Handbook of Design Ideas (Hardcover): Philip D. Plowright, Anirban Adhya Urban Design Made by Humans - A Handbook of Design Ideas (Hardcover)
Philip D. Plowright, Anirban Adhya
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Clarity. The book makes fairly complex ideas accessible to a first-year university architectural design student or first year graduate urban design student. These ideas just happen to be the ones that are at the core of all design processes and are often never explained or introduced to students. 2. Currency. The book's content is part of a cultural shift in education that moves design pedagogy to understanding cognitive processes connected to shape-making rather than formal design centred on object creation (addresses causes rather than symptoms). 3. Persistence. At the same time, the information in the book does not have an expiration date - this is persistence and foundational knowledge that sits at the base of all educational instruction in formal design. 4. Integration. The book makes no distinction between meaning and interpretation. The same skills that humans use to understand our environment are those that are used to design the environment. This book introduces persistent ways that humans interpret the environment

Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany (Hardcover): Agim Kercuku Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany (Hardcover)
Agim Kercuku
R3,769 Discovery Miles 37 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The book is a sequence of scenes that reveals the main characteristics, dynamics, narratives, reasons and ambiguities of the shrinking cities' transformations in the face of a long transition. The first scene concerns the demolition and transformation of social mass housing in Leinefelde-Worbis. The second scene deals with the temporary appropriation of abandoned buildings in Halle-Neustadt. The third scene, observed in Leipzig, shows the results of green space projects in urban voids. The scene of the fourth situation observes the extraordinary efforts to renaturise a mining territory in the Lausitz region. The fifth scene takes us to Hoyerswerda, where emigration and ageing process required a reduction and demolition in housing stock and social infrastructures. The border city of Goerlitz, the sixth and last scene, deals with the repopulation policies that aim to attract retirees from the West.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design - A History of Shifting Manifestoes,... The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design - A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs (Paperback)
Jon Lang
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

--Fully illustrated with more than 400 images of urban design from the last 150 years --Fills an important gap as no comprehensive history of the development of modern urban design ideas exists

Stevenage - Pioneering New Town Centre (Paperback): Emily Cole Stevenage - Pioneering New Town Centre (Paperback)
Emily Cole; As told to Elain Harwood; Edward James
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gardens (English & Foreign language, Hardcover): Andrew Grant Gardens (English & Foreign language, Hardcover)
Andrew Grant
R1,271 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R659 (52%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gardens harness, enhance and revere the power of the earth; to enjoy one is to experience the most harmonious collaboration between man and nature. Each space is unique and a product of their individual climate and environment. A garden also reflects the history, culture, and architecture of the society that cultivated it. Gardens is a comprehensive visual exploration of these dynamic and engaging spaces. Along with the most celebrated gardens in the world, Gardens explores large-scale urban interjections and elaborate conservation projects giving fresh definition to Francis Bacon's idea that 'gardening is the purest of human pleasures'. The Reflections series by Roads is a visual exploration of the spaces and building that mirror the cultures in which they play such a crucial part. Text in English, Spanish, French and German.

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism - (Re)Assembling Urban Space (Hardcover): Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey Temporary and Tactical Urbanism - (Re)Assembling Urban Space (Hardcover)
Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns. These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed by the fixities of urban form and its management. This book takes a thematic approach to explore what the scope of this practice is, and understand why it has risen to prominence, how it works, who is involved, and what its implications are for the future of city design and planning. It critically examines the material, social, economic and political complexities that surround and enable these small, ephemeral urban interventions. It identifies their short-term and long-term implications for urban intensity, diversity, creativity and adaptability. The book's insights into temporary and tactical urbanism have particular relevance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted both the need and the possibility of quickly transforming urban spaces worldwide. They also reveal significant lessons for the long-term planning and design of buildings, landscapes and cities.

(W)Ego: Tailor-Made Housing (Paperback): Winy Maas, Adrien Ravon, Javier Arpa, Felix Madrazo (W)Ego: Tailor-Made Housing (Paperback)
Winy Maas, Adrien Ravon, Javier Arpa, Felix Madrazo
R1,138 R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Save R230 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People - Processes, Practices and Policies for Youth Inclusion... The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People - Processes, Practices and Policies for Youth Inclusion (Paperback)
Janet Loebach, Sarah Little, Adina Cox, Patsy Eubanks Owens
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People is a thorough and practical resource for all who wish to influence policy and design decisions in order to increase young people's access to and use of public spaces, as well as their role in design and decision-making processes. The ability of youth to freely enjoy public spaces, and to develop a sense of belonging and attachment to these environments, is critical for their physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development. Young people represent a vital citizen group with legitimate rights to occupy and shape their public environments, yet they are often driven out of public places by adult users, restrictive bylaws, or hostile designs. It is also important that children and youth have the opportunity to genuinely participate in the planning of public spaces, and to have their needs considered in the design of the public realm. This book provides both evidence and tools to help effectively advocate for more youth-inclusive public environments, as well as integrate youth directly into both research and design processes related to the public realm. It is essential reading for researchers, design and planning professionals, community leaders, and youth advocates.

Flourish - Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency (Paperback): Sarah Ichioka Flourish - Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency (Paperback)
Sarah Ichioka
R841 R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Save R91 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Regenerative design and architecture What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Reaching beyond 'sustainability', 'regenerative' practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? And which key mindset shifts might enable truly regenerative transformation? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities. Whether you're a built environment professional or client, an activist or a policymaker, Flourish offers an urgent invitation to inhabit a new array of possibilities, through which we can build a thriving future, together.

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific (Hardcover): Kapila D. Silva, Ken Taylor, David S.... The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific (Hardcover)
Kapila D. Silva, Ken Taylor, David S. Jones
R6,459 Discovery Miles 64 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a broader conceptual framework like the cultural landscape approach. The book also demonstrates that such an approach facilitates the development of a flexible strategy for heritage conservation. Acknowledging the effects of rapid socio-economic development, globalization and climate change, contributors examine the pressure these issues place on the sustenance of cultural heritage. Including chapters from more than 20 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the volume reviews the effectiveness of theoretical and practical potentials afforded by the cultural landscape approach and examines how they have been utilized in the Asia-Pacific context for the last three decades. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes of cultural landscape heritage conservation and management. As a result, it will be of interest to academics, students and professionals who are based in the fields of cultural heritage management, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and landscape management.

Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities - Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management (Hardcover):... Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities - Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management (Hardcover)
Claire Coulter, Alessandro Melis, Julia Brown
R4,062 Discovery Miles 40 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven, Gdansk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making on future urban development. The book presents contributions from CRUNCH, a transdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food, water, and energy management; the design of resilient public space; collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have focused on large, transnational cases, this book explores local ways to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure. Over half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban designers, and city planners, as well as students and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience.

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism - Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (Hardcover): Sibel Bozdogan, Panayiota... Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism - Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt (Hardcover)
Sibel Bozdogan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides
R4,079 Discovery Miles 40 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways. The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization. Postwar leisure tourism evokes a rich array of architectural spaces and altered coastal landscapes, which is explored in this collection through discussions of tourism developments in the Mediterranean littoral, such as Greece, Turkey, and southern France, as well as compelling analyses of Soviet bloc seaside resorts along the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, and in beachscapes and tourism architectures of western and eastern hemispheres, from Southern California to Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Egypt. This collection makes a compelling argument that "leisurescapes," far from being supra-ideological and apolitical spatial expressions of modernization, development, and progress, have often concealed histories of conflict, violence, social inequalities, and environmental degradation. It will be of interest to architectural and urban historians, architects and planners, as well as urban geographers, economic and environmental historians.

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 (Hardcover): Susanneh Bieber American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 (Hardcover)
Susanneh Bieber
R4,070 Discovery Miles 40 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Mary Miss, who were closely associated with the formal-aesthetic innovations of the period. While these individual artists came to represent diverse movements, Bieber argues that all of them were attracted to the field of architecture—the work of architects, engineers, preservationists, landscape designers, and urban planners—because they believed these practices more directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life. This book’s contribution to the field of art history is thus twofold. First, it shows that the avant-garde of the long 1960s did not simply develop according to an internal logic of art but also as part of broader sociocultural discourses about buildings and cities. Second, it exemplifies a methodological synthesis between social art history and poststructural formalism that is foundational to understanding the role of art in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architecture, urbanism, and environmental humanism.

Contesting Public Spaces - Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London (Hardcover): Ed Wall Contesting Public Spaces - Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London (Hardcover)
Ed Wall
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

-London-based case studies are discussed in the broader context of metropolitan cities worldwide, providing generalizable as well as specific lessons and examples -Interviews across several fields: international architects, government planners, deputy prime ministers, community organizers, etc. -Targeted toward students as well as a wide range of urban practitioners (planners, politicians, architects, government officials, etc.)

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