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The Design of Frontier Spaces - Control and Ambiguity (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
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The Design of Frontier Spaces - Control and Ambiguity (Hardcover, Revised Ed.)
Series: Design and the Built Environment
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In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as
significant as ever. New borders are established even as old
borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are
spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and
other design elements are deployed to signal the nature of the
space and to guide, if not actually control, behaviour and social
relations within it. This volume unpacks how manipulations of space
and design in frontier zones, historically as well as today, set
the stage for specific kinds of interactions and convey meanings
about these sites and the experiences they embody. Frontier zones
organize an array of functions to facilitate the passage of goods,
information, and people, and to define and control access. Bringing
together studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and
North America, this collection of essays casts a wide net to
consider borders of diverse sorts. Investigations of contemporary
political frontiers are set within the context of examinations of
historical borders, borders that have existed within cities, and
virtual borders. This range allows for reflection on shifts in how
frontier zones are articulated and the impermanence of border
emplacements, as well as on likely scenarios for future frontiers.
This text is unique in bringing together a number of scholarly
perspectives in the arts and humanities to examine how spatial and
architectural design decisions convey meaning, shape or abet
specific social practices, and stage memories of frontier zones
that no longer function as such. It joins and expands discussions
in social science disciplines, in which considerations of border
practices tend to overlook the role of built form and material
culture more broadly in representing social practices and meanings.
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