[ebooks] Secrets of Success for Architects in China: Insights from the Men and Women who Built Modern China by Crombie Gavin at Arts-Photography

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This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as lsquo;ghost signsrsquo;). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them; painted them; viewed them and view them today. Topics covered include cultural memory; urban change; modernity and belonging; local history and place-making; the crowd-sourced use of online mobile and social media to document and share digital artefacts; lsquo;retrorsquo; design and the resurgence in interest in the handmade. The book is international and interdisciplinary; combining academic analysis and critical input from practitioners and researchers in areas such as cultural studies; destination marketing; heritage advertising; design; social history and commercial archaeology.