Writing the Materialities of the Past: Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination

Author:   Sam Griffiths (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   254
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
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Author:   Sam Griffiths (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138340244


ISBN 10:   1138340243
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: the architectural topography of historical imagination Part I: Contingency in the historiographies of the English reformation, French revolution and era of the industrial revolution in England 1. Contingency and artifice 2. Encounter and utterance 3. Milieu and movement 4. Figure and event Part II: Writing history as a city 5. Proximity and distance 6. The revolutionary encounter field: Paris c.1789–94 and other stories 7. Recollection and re-enactment 8. Morphologies of feeling Appendix A: A notation for the architectural topographic sequencing of texts Appendix B: Synopsis of Cinderella Appendix C: Additional architectural topographic sequences from Cinderella Appendix D: Search terms and categories used in toponemic analysis references index

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Sam Griffiths is Associate Professor in Spatial Cultures in the Space Syntax Laboratory at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. His research interests focus on theories and methods for studying the historical relationship between people and built environments, the spatial culture of industrial cities and space syntax as an interdisciplinary research perspective in the humanities and social sciences. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on these topics. He is co-editor, with Alexander von Lünen of Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities published by Routledge in 2016.

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