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Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities we inhabit. Kim Dovey contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion and seduction, thus legitimizing authority and control over civilian populations. The book draws from a broad range of social theories and deploys three primary analyses of built form, namely the anaysis of spatial structure, the interpretation of constructed meanings and the interpretation of lived experience. These approaches to programme, text and place, are woven together through a series of narratives on specific places and types of built environment such as Berlin, Beijing and Canberra.
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities we inhabit. Kim Dovey contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion and seduction, thus legitimizing authority and control over civilian populations. The book draws from a broad range of social theories and deploys three primary analyses of built form, namely the anaysis of spatial structure, the interpretation of constructed meanings and the interpretation of lived experience. These approaches to programme, text and place, are woven together through a series of narratives on specific places and types of built environment such as Berlin, Beijing and Canberra.
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The term 'power' is widely used, and misused, in a rather global manner to refer to a variety of different capacities and effects I want to try to avoid this through a short analysis of 'power' as a concept The term derives from the Latin potere, 'to be able' - the capacity to achieve some end Yet power in human affairs generally involves control 'over' others This distinction between 'power to' and 'power over', between power as capacity and as a relationship between people, is fundamental to all that follows (Isaac 1992 47, Pred 1981). Read the first page
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The term 'power' is widely used, and misused, in a rather global manner to refer to a variety of different capacities and effects I want to try to avoid this through a short analysis of 'power' as a concept The term derives from the Latin potere, 'to be able' - the capacity to achieve some end Yet power in human affairs generally involves control 'over' others This distinction between 'power to' and 'power over', between power as capacity and as a relationship between people, is fundamental to all that follows (Isaac 1992 47, Pred 1981). Read the first page
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