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Title Cultures and settlements / edited by Malcolm Miles and Nicola Kirkham
Published Bristol, Eng. ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in art & urban futures ; v. 3
Advances in art & urban futures ; v. 3.
Contents Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Contributors; Cultural Planning in East London; Culture and Commerce: European Culture Cities and Civic Distinction; Low-income Housing and Community Participation; Opening Up Public Art's Spaces: Art, Regeneration and Audience; A New Script for the Lake District; Candy Coated Chronotope -- Spatial Representations of a Seaside Resort; Niketown Berlin: The city as a brand experience; The University Campus -- a Ghost City; Class, Gender, Invisibility and the Autograph: Alison Marchant's Oppositional Encounters with Space
Summary This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation. Taking the position that a culture signifies a way of life, it asks how cultural frameworks inform patterns of settlement, and how the built environment, as process and design, conditions cultural production and reception. The disciplinary fields this intersects include architecture, urban design, sociology, cultural and human geography, cultural studies and critical theory. Contributors work in a range of such fields, in Europe and Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179)
Notes English
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Subject Art and society.
Public art.
Public spaces.
Urban renewal.
Urban Renewal
urban renewal.
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Performance.
Art and society
Public art
Public spaces
Urban renewal
Nederzettingspatronen.
Culturele aspecten.
Gebouwde omgeving.
Form Electronic book
Author Miles, Malcolm, 1950 June 6-
Kirkham, Nicola
LC no. 2004297731
ISBN 1841508845
9781841508849
9781841500898
1841500895
1280476826
9781280476822
9786610476824
6610476829