[audiobook] Rotten: No Irish; No Blacks; No Dogs by John Lydon; Keith Zimmerman; Kent Zimmerman in Arts-Photography

Description

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 someones 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 structurediscourse analysisphenomenology. 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.