Author: Lawrence Vale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134729286
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author: Koompong Noobanjong
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581122012
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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This dissertation examines the evolution of Western and Modern architecture in Siam and Thailand. It illustrates how various architectural ideas have contributed to the physical design and spatial configuration of places associated with negotiation and allocation of political power, which are throne halls, parliaments, and government and civic structures since the 1850s.
Author: Lawrence Vale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134729219
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author: Michael E. Geisler
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654377
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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A fascinating look at national symbols worldwide and the important role they play in creating and maintaining individual and collective identity.
Author: Michael Minkenberg
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782380108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
Author: Alexander C. Diener
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538118270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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This interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces and places are active mediums for defining categories of inclusion—and exclusion. With an international scope and ready appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book compares core elements of identity projects in a range of political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities are not simply lived in but also lived through.
Author: Raymond Quek
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409433859
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Bringing together case studies from Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, this book provides an exploration of the relationship between architecture and nationalism. It includes essays grouped together in three thematic sections: Revisiting Nationalism, Interpreting Nationalism and Questioning Nationalism.
Author: Kim Dovey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134117361
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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This book is about the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are. Drawing on the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu, the book analyzes the sense of place as socio-spatial assemblage and as embodied habitus, through a broad range of case studies from nationalist monuments and new urbanist suburbs to urban laneways and avant garde interiors.
Author: Paul Readman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
Author: Augustin Ioan
Publisher: Bucharest : The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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