Culture Politics & the Built Environment – serie
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Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany
Inbunden, 2017
876 kr
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Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies …
Improvised Cities
Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Av Helen Gyger
Inbunden, 2019
947 kr
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Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter settlements. Improvised Cities examines the history of …
Spatial Theories for the Americas
Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
Inbunden, 2024
876 kr
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Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural TheoryTo study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the …
World Observation
Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
Inbunden, 2025
1089 kr
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Longlist, Jan van Gelder Prize, Dutch Society for Art HistoryWorld Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of …
Territory in Conflict
Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza
Inbunden, 2025
947 kr
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2026 Honorable Mention, Best Book in Urban History (excl. the U.S., Canada, and Europe), Urban History AssociationA Territory in Conflict explores Israeli and Palestinian projects of modernization and development in the Gaza Strip, from the outset of Israel’s military occupation in 1967 to the Oslo …
Spaces of Immigration
American Ports, Railways, and Settlements
Inbunden, 2025
1063 kr
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By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundational period of American infrastructure, showing …
Atlantic Unbound
Architecture in the World of the Haitian Revolution
Av Peter Minosh
Inbunden, 2026
1728 kr
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In Atlantic Unbound, Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World—a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Minosh focuses on …
Spatial Solidarities
Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Inbunden, 2026
1977 kr
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Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. Spatial Solidarities illuminates how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the …
Governing by Design
Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Av Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Häftad, 2012
705 kr
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Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our …
Designing Tito's Capital
Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade
Häftad, 2014
969 kr
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The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his own vision of socialism. In Designing Tito’s Capital, Brigitte Le Normand analyzes the unprecedented planning …
Of Greater Dignity than Riches
Austerity and Housing Design in India
Av Farhan Karim
Inbunden, 2019
947 kr
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Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim …
Race and Modern Architecture
A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
Av Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
581 kr
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Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a …
Building Character
The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
Häftad, 2021
643 kr
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Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award | Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award | Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book PrizeIn the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings …
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital
Häftad, 2022
643 kr
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Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and …
City in the Shadow of the Shantytown
A Critical History of the Bidonville
Av Sheila Crane
Häftad, 2026
642 kr
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Architects, politicians, and planners have repeatedly framed shantytowns or slums as aberrant, unplanned developments that stand apart from the city proper, rather than integral components of the urban landscape with their own layered histories and often unrealized potentials. Describing a site as …
Atlantic Unbound
Architecture in the World of the Haitian Revolution
Av Peter Minosh
Häftad, 2026
457 kr
Kommande
In Atlantic Unbound, Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World—a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, North America, and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Minosh focuses on …
Spatial Solidarities
Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
Kommande
Between 1973 and 1990, the authoritarian military dictatorship of Chile maintained its control through a network of detention and torture centers designed to create fear and isolation. Spatial Solidarities illuminates how architects, artists, activists, and other political agents resisted the …
Model Schools in the Model City
Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital
Häftad, 2026
581 kr
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Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book AwardAccess to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American …
Spaces of Immigration
American Ports, Railways, and Settlements
Häftad, 2026
457 kr
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By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an active role in repopulating the interior of the country. Spaces of Immigration follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundational period of American infrastructure, showing …
Spatial Theories for the Americas
Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism
Häftad, 2026
565 kr
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Shortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural TheoryTo study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the …
Re-Collecting Black Hawk
Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Av Nicholas Brown, Sarah Kanouse
Inbunden, 2015
805 kr
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The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after …
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
Inbunden, 2018
947 kr
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Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid …
Architecture of Good Behavior
Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America
Inbunden, 2020
876 kr
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Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, …
Neoliberalism on the Ground
Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present
Av Kenny Cupers, Helena Mattsson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1018 kr
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Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture …
Second Suburb
Levittown, Pennsylvania
Häftad, 2013
705 kr
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Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fulfillment of the American Dream. Begun in 1952, after the completion of an identically named community on Long Island, the second Levittown soon …
Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin
Av Emily Pugh
Häftad, 2014
829 kr
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On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire fence. Over the next twenty-eight years of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall grew to become an ever-present physical and psychological divider …
Building Modern Turkey
State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic
Av Zeynep Kezer
Häftad, 2015
767 kr
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Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues …
