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Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form

Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form

Paperback

Series: Architext

General Architecture

ISBN10: 0415416353
ISBN13: 9780415416351
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities. These silent framings of everyday life also mediate practices of coercion, seduction and authorization as architects and urban designers engage with the articulation of dreams; imagining and constructing a 'better' future in someone's interest.

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