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  • Festival Cities

    Culture, Planning and Urban Life

    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Defence

    de John R. Gold ...
    This is a key text on the very topical themes of power, defence and space. Landscapes of Defence is an exciting collection of theoretical and empirical material from very well known contributors, desiged to help students understand how landscapes of defence fit in with some of the broader concepts of space, power and place to which they are introduced in the 1st year. The book is split into four ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Cities of Culture

    Staging International Festivals and the Urban Agenda, 1851–2000

    de John R. Gold ...
    City authorities in recent years have competed vigorously to gain the right to host international festivals. In doing so they are heirs to a long tradition, since cities have always served as a natural location for festivals and fairs, providing settings on a scale impossible elsewhere. Cities of Culture examines the role of the Western city as the scene of staged cultural events over the last 150 ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Experience of Modernism

    Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53

    de John R. Gold ...
    Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1928-1953, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the Modern Movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Geography, The Media and Popular Culture

    Edición de Jacquelin Burgess, John R Gold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography
    In this book, originally published in 1985, British and North American geographers present original and challenging viewpoints on the media. The essays deal with a diverse content, ranging from the presentation of news to the nature of television programming and from rock music lyrics to film visions of the city. ... Leer más

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  • Engaging Film

    Geographies of Mobility and Identity

    Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create ... Leer más

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  • Representing the Environment

    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    The development of the environmental movement has relied heavily upon written and visual imagery. Representing the Environment offers an introductory guide to representations of the environment found in the media, literature, art and everyday life encounters.Featuring case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, Representing the Environment provides practical guidance on how to study ... Leer más

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  • The Practice of Modernism

    Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

    de John R. Gold ...
    In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga ... Leer más

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  • Valued Environments

    Edición de John R. Gold, Jacquelin Burgess ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy
    First published in 1982. People care about places. Inhabitants demand more participation in the changes proposed for their local environments, activists urge greater protection of countryside and natural environments, decision-makers feel threatened by the antagonism aroused by their powers and plans. The essays in this book have been drawn together to discover what lies behind these expressions ... Leer más

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    In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu word for 'breathe' also means 'to make ... Leer más

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  • Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

    Edición de Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the population of any given society, but their lives are inescapably influenced by the expectations and ... Leer más

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  • An Architect's Guide to Fame

    This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous. In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book examines the mechanisms by which architects seek publicity and manage to establish themselves and their work ahead of their colleagues. Through the ... Leer más

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