Title & Author:

Structure and meaning in human settlements / Tony Atkin and Joseph Rykwert, editors.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2005]

Description:

xi, 371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building and knowing / Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin -- Animal settlements : ecological functionalism of animal architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Settlement patterns in Americanist archaeology / Gordon R. Willey -- The idea of a Maya town / Wendy Ashmore -- Cosmological structures of ancient Egyptian city planning / David O'Connor -- Mohenjo-Daro : the symbolic landscape of an ancient city / Gregory Possehl -- Holy mountains / Joseph Rykwert -- The ontological structure of mediance as a ground of meaning in architecture / Augustin Berque -- Three gestures in a poetics of place : Chinese settlement and disruption / Stephan Feuchtwang -- The language of cultural memory in Chinese gardens / Stanislaus Fung -- A culture without a temple : ritual landscape sanctuaries and female superiority in state religion in Ryukyu / Tsutomu Iyori -- Etruscan boundaries and prophecy / Larissa Bonfante -- Razing the roof : the imperative of building destruction in Danhomè (Dahomey) / Suzanne P. Blier -- Signs of the ancestors : an archaeology of mesa villages of the pueblo revolt / T.J. Ferguson and Robert Preucel -- Imagining the past / Edmund Carpenter -- The oasis model / Pietro Laureano -- The evolution of settlement : fieldwork at Zuni pueblo 1995-97 / Tony Atkin -- The primitive origins of modern architecture : Le Corbusier's Voyage to the East / M. Christine Boyer -- Symbolic settlements : the American ideological tension between private homes and public housing / Lawrence J. Vale -- Transplanting the New Jersey turnpike to China / Thomas J. Campanella -- Landscape ecology and cities / Laurie Olin -- Settlements after now / Michael Sorkin -- 21st century nomadism and settlement / Denis Cosgrove -- Materials matter in urban architecture / David Leatherbarrow.

Summary:

"This book explores the relationships between form, space, and cultural meaning in human habitation. Authors from a variety of disciplines and international sites address the possibilities of common ground in architectural theories about place and dwelling, anthropological research on settlement archaeology, and the study of cultural landscapes and geography. Illustrated with 220 full-color images, this book is a unique attempt to combine thinking about cultural meaning in space and settlements, both ancient and contemporary."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1931707839 (alk. paper)
9781931707831 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Human settlements.
Human ecology.
Architecture, Domestic.
Space (Architecture)
Établissements humains.
Écologie humaine.
Architecture domestique.
Espace (Architecture)
inhabited places.
human ecology.
dwellings.
74.00 (human) geography: general.
15.30 archaeology: general.
Siedlungsarchäologie
Siedlungsgeografie
Settlements (communities)
Use of space.
Human settlements History.
Architecture, Ancient.
Human ecology History.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Atkin, Tony.
Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-

Structure & meaning in human settlements

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255501
Call No.: BIB 185697
Status: Available