Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form

Author:   Kim Dovey (Melbourne University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   5
ISBN:  

9780415416351


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Format:   Paperback
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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. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include a look at the recent Grollo Tower development in Melbourne and a critique on Euralille, a new quarter development in Northern France. The book draws from a broad range of methodology including: analysis of spatial structure discourse analysis phenomenology. These approaches are woven together through a series of narratives on specific cities - Berlin, Beijing and Bangkok - and global building types including the corporate tower, shopping mall, domestic house and enclave.

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Author:   Kim Dovey (Melbourne University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415416351


ISBN 10:   0415416353
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Of the1st edition: 'Dovey has produced a most useful and incisive analysis of meaning in built form, of how places and buildings can be appropriated as tools of either oppression or emancipation....challenging and thought-provoking in equal measures.' - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000 Vol 27, June 2000 'Altogether a wonderfully stimulating, consistently readable, and exceptionally interesting book.' - Area


Author Information

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published and broadcast widely on issues of place and ideology including the book Fluid City (Routledge 2005).

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