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Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. It is suitable for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

This contributed volume examines how migrants interact with, adapt, and construct new architecture. Looking at the physical, urban and cultural impact of these changes on a variety of sites, the authors explore architecture as an identity category and investigate what buildings and places associated with migration tell us about central questions of belonging, culture, community, and home in regions such as North America, Australia and the UK.

Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts

Draws on the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, this title explores the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions.

This book explores how journals mediate and transform our understanding and experience of buildings urban spaces and architectural cultures.

A collection of essays from both established and younger scholars from a variety of disciplines address the relationship between gender and projects of social transformation through architecture, design and urban planning.

Challenging conventional and Western approaches to urbanism, this book examines the case of Delhi and how it has evolved from a traditional to a modern city, whilst asking what these terms mean in the context of the built environment.

The essays in this volume argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, survey the present and explore the future.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. It is suitable for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.

Focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment.

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world.

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world.

Presents an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this volume shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities.

Presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. This book contains several essays that explore visual representations of urbanism reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Draws on the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, this title explores the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions.

Draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalisation and develop new ones.

This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.

This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.

Provides a review of the area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, this work addresses the strategies that have emerged in the practice of identifying and developing heritage sites.

Provides a review of the area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, this work addresses the strategies that have emerged in the practice of identifying and developing heritage sites.

This contributed volume examines how migrants interact with, adapt, and construct new architecture. Looking at the physical, urban and cultural impact of these changes on a variety of sites, the authors explore architecture as an identity category and investigate what buildings and places associated with migration tell us about central questions of belonging, culture, community, and home in regions such as North America, Australia and the UK.

This book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterise an emerging as well as declining social order.

Presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. This book contains several essays that explore visual representations of urbanism reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Drawing on historical, global examples, this rich collection of essays illustrates how empires, nations and cities expand their frontiers and contest boundaries, but equally how borderline identities of people and places influence or expose these processes.