|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
The book presents a novel examination of urban commons which
provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public
policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as
invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and
ecological resource for future communities. The book's central
argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and
a rigorous engagement with present users, can we devise new futures
or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban
commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and
interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space
has important policy implications for the delivery of nature
conservation, recreational access and other land use priorities.
The stakeholders in today’s urban commons, whether land users,
policy makers or the public, are the inheritors of a complex
cultural legacy and must negotiate diverse and sometimes
conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying
goal: a secure future for our urban commons. The book offers a
unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commons, one
that brings together original historical investigation,
contemporary legal scholarship, extensive oral history research
with user groups, and research examining the imagined futures for
the urban common in modern society. It explores the complex social
and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and
cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within
England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common. These are
Town Moor in Newcastle, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Clifton and
Durdham Downs in Bristol and Valley Gardens in Brighton. The book
concludes by looking forward and considering new tools and methods
of negotiation, inclusivity and creativity to inform the future of
these case studies, and of urban commons more widely. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons,
green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography,
environmental studies and natural resource management.
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns
to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of
childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and
a creative exploration of those we use today. Where conventional
architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the
objectification of the maternal body), the book—in the mode of
Creative Practice Research—presents a creative-critical
autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist,
subjective modes of thinking, which travel across disciplines,
registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of
maternity spaces—from the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, purpose built by man-midwives,
to the late-twentieth century spaces of home and the modern
hospital maternity wing— and the parallel shift in maternal
practices. The spaces are not treated as mute or neutral backdrops
to maternal history, but as a series of vital entangled
atmospheres, materials, practices and objects that are produced by,
and in turn produce particular social and political conditions,
gendered structures and experiences. Moving across spaces, systems,
protagonists and their subjectivities, the book shows how hospital
design and protocols altered ordinary birth at home and continue to
shape maternal spatial experience today. As such, it will be of
interest to a wide range of readers, from architectural historians,
theoreticians and designers, architecture students, medical
humanities historians, English Literature humanities and material
studies readers and those interested in creative critical writing.
Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre
Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist
artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Aligning the two works
materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the
accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes
original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s
Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass.
Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into
history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of
writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive
gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie
Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a
gynaecology clinic into a 'free-plan' layout. Screened only by
glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an
untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de
Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass,
where Duchamp's complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations
across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital
conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large
Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a
register of the changing history of women's domestic and maternal
choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social
architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the
accounts in the book is termed 'part-architecture'. Derived from
psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical,
descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and
architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to
the Large Glass, the book has three main chapters: 'Glass', 'Dust'
and 'Air'. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing,
each traces the history and meaning of the material and its
contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the
Maison de Verre. As a whole, the book contributes important and
unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands
definitions of architectural design and history.
Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre
Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist
artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. Aligning the two works
materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the
accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes
original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s
Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass.
Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into
history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of
writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive
gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie
Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a
gynaecology clinic into a 'free-plan' layout. Screened only by
glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an
untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de
Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass,
where Duchamp's complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations
across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital
conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large
Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a
register of the changing history of women's domestic and maternal
choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social
architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the
accounts in the book is termed 'part-architecture'. Derived from
psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical,
descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and
architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to
the Large Glass, the book has three main chapters: 'Glass', 'Dust'
and 'Air'. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing,
each traces the history and meaning of the material and its
contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the
Maison de Verre. As a whole, the book contributes important and
unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands
definitions of architectural design and history.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|