Space Reader

Author : Jen Jack Gieseking
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317811887
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People, Place, and Space Reader written by Jen Jack Gieseking and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They help us to understand the relationships between people and the environment at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in creating the environments in which people live, work, and play. These readings highlight the ways in which space and place are produced through large- and small-scale social, political, and economic practices, and offer new ways to think about how people engage the environment in multiple and diverse ways. Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and many other areas, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings across many inter-related disciplines. Introductions from the editors precede each section; introducing the texts, demonstrating their significance, and outlining the key issues surrounding the topic. A companion website, PeoplePlaceSpace.org, extends the work even further by providing an on-going series of additional reading lists that cover issues ranging from food security to foreclosure, psychiatric spaces to the environments of predator animals.

Author : Chiara Briganti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144266195X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Domestic Space Reader written by Chiara Briganti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by providing the first comprehensive survey of the concept across time, cultures, and disciplines. This pioneering anthology, which is ideal for students and general readers, features writing by key scholars, thinkers, and writers including Gaston Bachelard, Mary Douglas, Le Corbusier, Homi Bhabha, Henri Lefebvre, Mrs. Beeton, Ma Thanegi, Diana Fuss, Beatriz Colomina, and Edith Wharton. Among the many engaging topics explored are: the impact of domestic technologies on family life; the relationship between religion and the home; nomadic peoples and housing; domestic spaces in art and literature; and the history of the bedroom, the kitchen, and the bathroom. The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.

Author : Michael Hensel
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780470519431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Reader written by Michael Hensel and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is heterogeneous (an object or system consisting of a diverse range of different items). An example of heterogeneous space, for instance, is Manhattan where complex and multiple social and technological conditions are overlaid. (This is to be contrasted with highly centralised and ordered Modernist cities.) With the onset of globalisation and the Web, heterogeneneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space. This book foregrounds spatial issues and the potential of heterogeneous space through a threefold strategy: 1) Its compilation of seminal essays on the discourse of heterogeneous space. These are to include previously published key texts by Reyner Banham, Andrew Benjamin, Robin Evans, Jeff Kipnis and Henri Lefebvre, as well as new texts by important contemporary commentators, such as Mark Cousins, Werner Durth and Anthony Vidler. 2) By commenting on these seminal texts and drawing links between them. 3) By distilling from the first two efforts a contemporary outlook on a discourse of heterogeneous space that is of future significance.

Author : Mary Jane Jacob
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226389626
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Studio Reader written by Mary Jane Jacob and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist’s studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a “factory,” artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dramatically as their practices. The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain from the art world to reveal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist’s practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually—at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines. A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art at its making, The Studio Reader reconsiders this crucial space as an actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists and the world they inhabit.

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470754710
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State / Space written by Neil Brenner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of ‘globalization'. Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy. Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America.

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780816748112
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Dogs on Planet K-9 written by Joan Holub and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark goes to a planet where dogs are in charge of people.

Author : Roberta Edwards
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 : 9780448415666
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Kid written by Roberta Edwards and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1997-01-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect way for young children to learn how to identify shapes and learn words, Space Kid is an easy-to-read picture book that will spark your young one’s imagination. This humorous story of a friendly alien boy is a great book to get small children ready for learning to read. Give kids a head start with a Picture Reader. Simple words, rebus pictures, and flash cards make learning to read easy and fun.

Author : Ester Wier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Space Hut written by Ester Wier and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the city manager says his new tree hut is an eyesore and must come down, a boy, with the help of a mysterious stranger and a pet skunk, "fights city hall."

Author : Miodrag Mitrašinović
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351202537
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Space Reader written by Miodrag Mitrašinović and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public re- sources, public space is critically important due to its capacity to enable forms of public dis- course and social practice which are fundamental for the well-being of democratic societies. Public Space Reader brings together public space scholarship by a cross-disciplinary group of academics and specialists whose essays consider fundamental questions: What is public space and how does it manifest larger cultural, social, and political processes? How are public spaces designed, socially and materially produced, and managed? How does this impact the nature and character of public experience? What roles does it play in the struggles for the just city, and the Right to The City? What critical participatory approaches can be employed to create inclusive public spaces that respond to the diverse needs, desires, and aspirations of individuals and communities alike? What are the critical global and comparative perspectives on public space that can enable further scholarly and professional work? And, what are the futures of public space in the face of global pandemics, such as COVID-19? The readers of this volume will be rewarded with an impressive array of perspectives that are bound to expand critical understanding of public space.

Author : Kimberly Weinberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590984812
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Jam written by Kimberly Weinberger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes characters have been kidnaped by aliens, and Bugs challenges the aliens to a game of basketball to settle things.