Title & Author:

Site matters : design concepts, histories, and strategies / [edited by] Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xxix, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why site matters / Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn -- 1. Around the corner : a photo essay / Lucy R. Lippard -- 2. Claiming the site : evolving social-legal conceptions of ownership and property / Harvey M. Jacobs -- 3. From place to site : negotiating narrative complexity / Robert A. Beauregard -- 4. Groundwork / Robin Dripps -- 5. Site citations : the grounds of modern landscape architecture / Elizabeth Meyer -- 6. Shifting sites / Kristina Hill -- 7. Contested contexts / Sandy Isenstadt -- 8. The suppressed site : revealing the influence of site on two purist works / Wendy Redfield -- 9. Neighborhoods apart : site/non-sight and suburban apartments / Paul Mitchell Hess -- 10. Study areas, sites, and the geographic approach to public action / Peter Marcuse -- 11. Defining urban sites / Andrea Kahn -- 12. High-performance sites / Carol J. Burns -- Engaging the field / William Sherman.

ISBN:

0415949750 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415949750
0415949769 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415949767

Subject:

Building sites Planning.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern.
Chantiers de construction Planification.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.

Added entries:

Carol J. Burns, 1954-
Andrea Khan, 1958-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233911
Call No.: NA2540.5.B86 2004
Status: Available