Main entry:

Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010.

Title & Author:

Placing words : symbols, space, and the city / William J. Mitchell.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Description:

ix, 224 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Do we still need skyscrapers? -- After 9/11 -- Poison ivy -- The cobblestones and the beach -- Guernica II -- Beyond the city limits -- Palladio in the piazza -- Things that think -- Twilight at the drive -in -- Smackdown in cyberspce -- Smelling the brie -- An eye for an eye -- What does a pixel want to be? -- Elegy for a G4 -- The wireless groves -- Vagabond shoes -- Manolos -- A neutron walks into a bar -- Gauguin's house in paradise -- Architectural principles of the torture chamber -- King of bling -- The theatrics of terror -- Crash and burn -- The spiderman cometh -- My two cents -- The munchkin modulor -- Less is more is back -- Desperate urbanists -- Homo electronicus -- After the tsunami -- Gated community -- Camp cupcake blues -- Carriage return.

Summary:

"The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception: Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns. In Placing Words, Mitchell looks at the ways in which urban spaces and places provide settings for communication and at how they conduct complex flows of information through the twenty-first century city."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0262633221 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262633222 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Communication in architecture.
Cities and towns.
Public spaces.
City planning.
Cities
City Planning
Communication en architecture.
Médias en architecture.
Urbanisme.
Espaces publics.
Villes.
cities.
urban planning.
Architekturkritik
Kommunikation
Städtebau
Stedenbouw.
Culturele aspecten.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 239971
Call No.: BIB 169891
Status: Available