Rites of way [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and poetics of public space / / Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, editors
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| Titolo: |
Rites of way [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and poetics of public space / / Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1/216 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public spaces |
| Public spaces - Political aspects | |
| Public spaces - Social aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
KingwellMark <1963->
TurmelPatrick <1976->
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rites of Way, Paths of Desire; PART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV; Contributors; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny. The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions of the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rites of way |
| ISBN: | 1-282-53448-3 |
| 9786612534485 | |
| 1-55458-167-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785050303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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