The uses of decoration : essays in the architectural everyday / Malcolm Miles.

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Miles, Malcolm.

Title & Author:

The uses of decoration : essays in the architectural everyday / Malcolm Miles.

Publication:

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
Chapter 1 Views from Elsewhere 9 -- Chapter 2 Urban Narratives 37 -- Chapter 3 Production of Space 57 -- Chapter 4 Hajj Paintings in Upper Egypt 79 -- Chapter 5 Architecture for the Poor 105 -- Chapter 6 Reclamation: Nine Mile Run Greenway 129 -- Chapter 7 Architectural Everydays 153 -- Chapter 8 Art and Intervention in Post-industrial Cities 179 -- Chapter 9 View from Here: Sustainability 203.

Summary:

"The book draws together material from several countries and areas of practice - from the affluent as well as the non-affluent worlds, and from art as well as architecture - which it links by a common framework of critical reflection and theory. Running through the book is a concern for the everyday, for the seemingly small and insignificant ways in which people occupy the built environment, which constitute what Henri Lefebvre calls representational spaces; from awareness of this dimension of urban space (and the failures consequent on ignorance of it in some kinds of modern architecture and planning), the book moves to the question of sustainability."--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

047148962X (cased ; acid-free paper)
9780471489627 (cased ; acid-free paper)
0471489638 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780471489634 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
City planning.
Public architecture.
Architectural design.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
City Planning
Architecture et société.
Urbanisme.
Architecture publique.
Design architectural.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
urban planning.
architectural ornament.
Architektur
Dekoration
Soziologie
Stadtforschung
Stadtgestaltung
Städtebau
Ästhetik
Architecture Aspect social.
Geschichte 1980-2000

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213164
Call No.: NA2543.S6 M5 2000
Status: Available

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