Title & Author:

The unknown city : contesting architecture and social space / edited by Iain Borden [and others].

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2001.

Description:

xxvii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Strangely Familiar project."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Things, flows, filters, tactics / Iain Borden et al. -- Twice-told stories: the double erasure of Times Square / M. Christine Boyer -- That place where: some thoughts on memory and the city / Barry Curtis -- The uncompleted monument: London, war, and the architecture of remembrance / Joe Kerr -- From Tribeca to triburbia: a new concept of the city / William Menking -- "Bazaar beauties" or "pleasure is our pursuit": a spatial story of exchange / Jane Rendell -- I am a videocam / Philip Tabor -- Stories of plain territory: the Maidan, Calcutta / Helen Thomas -- Colonialism, power, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank / Shirley Wong -- Another pavement, another beach: skateboarding and the performative critique of architecture / Iain Borden -- The Royal Festival Hall: a "democratic" space? / Adrian Forty -- The cityscape and the "people" in the prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada / Tom Gretton -- The Claremont Road situation / Sandy McCreery -- The lesbian flaneur / Sally R. Munt -- The un(known) city, or, An urban geography of what lies buried below the surface / Steve Pile -- On Spuistraat: the contested streetscape in Amsterdam / Edward W. Soja -- Home and away: the feminist remapping of public and private space in Victorian London / Lynne Walker -- Brief encounters / Nigel Coates -- Live adventures / Cornford & Cross -- It's not unusual: projects and tactics / Fat -- Claiming women's history in the urban landscape: projects from Los Angeles / Dolores Hayden -- Architecture and the city / Bernard Tschumi -- "The accident of where I live": journeys on the Caledonian road / Richard Wentworth -- Architecture, amnesia, and the emergent archaic / Iain Chambers -- Reflections from a Moscow diary, 1984-1994 / Jonathan Charley -- City living: love's meeting place / bell hooks -- Port statistics / Patrick Keiller -- Living in Wythenshawe / Doreen Massey -- The last days of London / Patrick Wright -- Around the world in three hundred yards / Patrick Wright.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0262523353
9780262523356
0262024713
9780262024716

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Facteurs humains.

Added entries:

Borden, Iain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214235
Call No.: NA2543.S6 U5 2001
Status: Available