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The Signature of Power - Buildings, Communications, and Policy (Paperback)
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The Signature of Power - Buildings, Communications, and Policy (Paperback)
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Advanced industrial societies are becoming aware of the impact of
what they do to the physical and biological environment, and also
what that environment does to individuals. In The Signature of
Power, Harold D. Lasswell examines the symbolic use people make of
their surroundings and the complexity of the way they interpret an
altered environment. Transformed habitats can change experiences
and behaviours. All people seek to maximize their preferred events,
such as power and wealth, when they use the environment-be it
through glass skyscrapers or Gothic estates. In all cases, physical
structures give expression to the perspectives of influential
individuals and groups. This volume considers the complex interplay
between the material and the symbolic. Physical changes introduced
for political purposes by architects, planners, and engineers are
guided by the perspectives of designers. These and other
interactions in human society are simultaneous acts of
communication and collaboration. Regardless of whether physical
resources are used to transmit messages, such interactions
nevertheless have a degree of communicative impact. Physical
structures may be profoundly affected by the purposes, assumptions,
and identities of those people who plan or change them.
Environmental design, says Lasswell, is an instrument of political
power.
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