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John Wiley & Sons The New Cathedrals
Book SynopsisStadium construction has altered the physical landscape of many major metropolitan areas throughout North America. This work examines the political institutions, commercial entities, civic leadership, and media organizations that influenced new stadium construction.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture A
Book SynopsisPresents diverse points of view on the relationship between design and capitalism. The contributions to this book stake out a variety of positions in the debate over the extent to which it is possible - or desirable - to escape from, resist, or suggest plausible alternatives to the dominant culture of consumer capitalism.
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Rizzoli ArchitectureArt Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne
Book SynopsisA celebration of the opening of the new Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, exploring the creation of one of Europe's foremost art centers.October 2019 marks a milestone for the Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, with its long-awaited reopening in a new site: a striking contemporary building from the award-winning Italian and Catalan architects Barozzi Veiga. An art center within the heart of one of Switzerland's most beautiful cities, this space will house the museum's prestigious collection of over 11,000 works, from eighteenth-century pieces to contemporary art.Edited and authored by the well-known architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this book is dedicated to the ambitious project of rehousing a collection that was begun in 1841. With 150 photographs and drawings that illuminate an enormous undertaking, this volume provides a detailed insight into the different phases of design and construction, and the creation of an art complex that will lat
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Berghahn Books Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.Trade Review “Understood as a starting point for further inquiries into practices of mourning, burial and grief, this volume deserves broad attention, not least because it succeeds in embedding its case studies within a broad cultural, social and political history.” • European History Quarterly “Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the war and treats what happened after only in relation to the Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition to the library of every scholar of modern Germany.” • German Politics & Society “[The volume] offers a significant contribution to theories of death and memory work in German Studies. [It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently written.” • German Studies Review “Taken together, the volume provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in twentieth-century Germany…for anybody interested in the social and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an indispensable starting point.” • German HistoryTable of Contents Introduction Paul Betts, Alon Confino, Dirk Schumann PART I: BODIES Chapter 1. How the Germans Learned to Wage War. On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars Michael Geyer Chapter 2. The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War Richard Bessel Chapter 3. Rebuilding and Reburying: Emergency Cemeteries in Berlin after ‘Zero Hour’ Monica Black PART II: DISPOSAL Chapter 4. Fanning the Flames – Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany Simone Ameskamp Chapter 5. Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945 – 1990 Felix Robin Schulz Chapter 6. Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympics Kay Schiller Chapter 7. When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht Paul Betts PART III: SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 8. A Common Experience of Death: Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923 Tim Grady Chapter 9. Laughing about death? `German Humor´ in the Two World Wars Martina Kessel Chapter 10. Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife. Between Nazism and Religion Alon Confino Chapter 11. Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany Gabriel Finder PART IV: RUINS Chapter 12. The Imagination of Disaster. Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany Svenja Goltermann Chapter 13. European Melancholy and the Inability to Listen: Sebald, Politics, and Death Daniel Steuer Chapter 14. A Cemetery in Berlin Peter Fritzsche Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Borchert Field Stories from Milwaukees Legendary
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press The Wisconsin Capitol Stories of a Monument and
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University of Pennsylvania Press First Modern
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Purdue Universitys RossAde Stadium
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History Press New York City Monuments of Black Americans
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Pittsburghs Historic Stadiums and Arenas
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University of Minnesota Press F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and
Book SynopsisIf you think you know F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book will come as a delightfully intimate surprise. Fitzgerald scholar Dave Page has meticulously scoured the letters, scrapbooks, and diaries of the great American novelist, offering a fresh look at the young writer and his St. Paul friends and neighbors. Readers will learn about—and recognize—the sources for the characters and the places he wrote about—as well as understand why St. Paul so inspired him.F. Scott Fitzgerald fans already know and love some of the enchanting and mischievous characters that populate his early novels and short stories. There was Bernice, who bobbed not only her hair but her cousin’s as well. And those pranksters who crashed the wrong party disguised as an exotic camel! And then there was the poor Southern belle who almost froze to death in the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s ice palace. Many of Fitzgerald’s characters and tales were based on real people and events from the young writer’s life, set against the socioeconomic times of the Jazz Age, where he perceived a great gulf between the haves and the have-nots in his hometown.F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota combines insights into the writer’s early career with the rich architectural history of St. Paul, taking readers into the homes and places he frequented. Page’s well-researched analysis is complemented by Jeff Krueger’s sensitive color photographs of homes still standing, and supplemented by fascinating historic photographs of lives well lived in old St. Paul.Trade Review"If the traffic slows to an excruciating crawl through St. Paul's Summit Hill this summer, you can blame this book."—Star Tribune"The St. Paul places Fitzgerald frequented—the sources for many of the characters and places he wrote about—are captured in color and meticulously researched detail."—MinnPost"Beautifully designed, loaded with photographs and backed by Page’s prodigious research, the book takes readers to the homes and haunts of Fitzgerald and his friends and family."—Post-Bulletin
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Manchester University Press Remaking the Urban: Heritage and Transformation
Book SynopsisAfter the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects. These ranged from huge new museums and monuments to small community museums and grassroots memory work. At the same time, South African cities have continued to grapple with the difficulties of overcoming entrenched inequalities and divisions. Urban spaces are deep repositories of memory, and also sites in need of radical transformation. Remaking the Urban examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study.Roux unpacks the processes by which some narratives and histories become officially inscribed in public space, while others are visible only through alternative, ephemeral or subversive means. Including discussions of the history of the Red Location Museum of Struggle; memorialisation of urban forced removals; the heritage politics and transformative potential of public art; and strategies for making visible memories and histories of former anti-apartheid youth activist groups in the city’s townships, Roux examines how these twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay.Table of ContentsMap of Port Elizabeth1 Introduction: The articulated skeleton2 Memorial constructions: The Red Location Cultural Precinct3 Forced removals and landscapes of memory4 Public art and place-making5 Politics of recognition: The Nelson Mandela Bay Amabutho6 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield Controversial Monuments and Memorials: A Guide
Book SynopsisThe impetus for the first edition was violent actions---the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which was touched off by discussions about removing a statue to Robert E. Lee, and resulted in the death of Heather Heyer. Since the publication of the first edition, both history and democracy are being threatened in ways that we were only seeing small glimpses of in 2018. Today, attempts to elevate new or more complex history has been met with vilification. States across the country have passed legislation to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools and are seeking ways to limit what teachers are allowed to teach about slavery and race in the United States. These threats are unlikely to abate. As such, our responsibility as historians, community leaders, museum professionals, and citizens is to redouble our efforts to share human stories in relatable ways and to exercise our rights and wield our power whenever and however we can. The revised edition tackles the great issues of our time against the backdrop of monument culture and historical truth. Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF FIGURESLIST OF TERMSPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCharlottesville, Memory and How to Read this BookPart I: MUSEUMS, CONTROVERSY AND THE PASTChapterHistory as Legend and Myth as Fact, David B. AllisonConfronting Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century, Modupe LabodeHistory, Memory, and the Struggle for the Future, W. Todd Groce“No Sooner Was It Over, than the Memory Made It Nobler”, Bob BeattyPart II: THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RACISMChapter Remembering the Civil War, David B. AllisonMemorializing the Confederate Past at Gettysburg During the Civil Rights and Cold War Era, Jill Ogline TitusTributes to the Past, Present, and Future: World War I-Era Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, Edited for Revised Edition, Thomas R. SeabrookDon’t Call Them Memorials, Julian C. ChamblissA Lost Cause in the Bluegrass: Two Confederate Monuments in Lexington, Kentucky,Stuart W. SandersChallenging Historical Remembrance, Myth, and Identity: The Confederate Monuments Debate, Edited for Revised Edition, F. Sheffield HaleEmpty Pedestals: What should be done with Civic Monuments to the Confederacy and its Leaders?, Civil War TimesPart III: NATIVE PEOPLES AND WHITE-WASHED HISTORYChapter From Columbus to Serra and Beyond, David B. AllisonNative Voices at Little Bighorn National Monument, Gerard BakerThe Removal of James Earle Fraser’s Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History, William S. WalkerPart IV: IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RATIONAL AND SYMPATHETIC MINDS Chapter15. Group Behavior, Self-examination and Clearing the Air around Controversial Issues,David B. Allison16. Confederate Memorials: Choosing Futures for Our Past, A Veteran’s Perspective,George McDaniel17. Speech upon the Removal of Confederate Statues from New Orleans, May 19, 2017,Mitch Landrieu18. A Reflection of Us: The Simpsons and Heroes of the Past, Edited for Revised Edition, Jose ZunigaPart V: COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS AND HISTORICAL RE-CONTEXTUALIZATIONChapter19. “The Struggle to Overcome the Negatives of the Past”: Germany’sVergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Program, DavidB. Allison 20. “We as Citizens.…”: Approaches to Memorialization by Sites of Conscience around the World, Edited for Revised Edition, Linda Norris21. Monumental Relationships: International Monument Culture and the United States in the Early 21st Century, Laura A. Macaluso22. Listening and Responding to Community: A Long View, David B. Allison23. Confederate Statues at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben Wright24. Honoring El Movimiento: the Chicano Movement in Colorado, JJ Lonsinger Rutherford25. Not What's Broken; What's Healed: Women in El Barrio and the Healing Power of Community, Vanessa Cuervo Forero26. Telling the Whole Story: Education and Interpretation in Support of #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Elizabeth Pickard27. Project Say Something’s Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History, But Building Up Hope, Brian Murphy28. Changing of the Guard: Curating a New Conversation Around Colorado’s Toppled Civil War Monument, Jason L. HansonCONCLUSIONAppendixBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors
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Rowman & Littlefield Controversial Monuments and Memorials: A Guide
Book SynopsisThe impetus for the first edition was violent actions---the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which was touched off by discussions about removing a statue to Robert E. Lee, and resulted in the death of Heather Heyer. Since the publication of the first edition, both history and democracy are being threatened in ways that we were only seeing small glimpses of in 2018. Today, attempts to elevate new or more complex history has been met with vilification. States across the country have passed legislation to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools and are seeking ways to limit what teachers are allowed to teach about slavery and race in the United States. These threats are unlikely to abate. As such, our responsibility as historians, community leaders, museum professionals, and citizens is to redouble our efforts to share human stories in relatable ways and to exercise our rights and wield our power whenever and however we can. The revised edition tackles the great issues of our time against the backdrop of monument culture and historical truth. Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF FIGURESLIST OF TERMSPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCharlottesville, Memory and How to Read this BookPart I: MUSEUMS, CONTROVERSY AND THE PASTChapterHistory as Legend and Myth as Fact, David B. AllisonConfronting Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century, Modupe LabodeHistory, Memory, and the Struggle for the Future, W. Todd Groce“No Sooner Was It Over, than the Memory Made It Nobler”, Bob BeattyPart II: THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RACISMChapter Remembering the Civil War, David B. AllisonMemorializing the Confederate Past at Gettysburg During the Civil Rights and Cold War Era, Jill Ogline TitusTributes to the Past, Present, and Future: World War I-Era Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, Edited for Revised Edition, Thomas R. SeabrookDon’t Call Them Memorials, Julian C. ChamblissA Lost Cause in the Bluegrass: Two Confederate Monuments in Lexington, Kentucky,Stuart W. SandersChallenging Historical Remembrance, Myth, and Identity: The Confederate Monuments Debate, Edited for Revised Edition, F. Sheffield HaleEmpty Pedestals: What should be done with Civic Monuments to the Confederacy and its Leaders?, Civil War TimesPart III: NATIVE PEOPLES AND WHITE-WASHED HISTORYChapter From Columbus to Serra and Beyond, David B. AllisonNative Voices at Little Bighorn National Monument, Gerard BakerThe Removal of James Earle Fraser’s Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History, William S. WalkerPart IV: IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RATIONAL AND SYMPATHETIC MINDS Chapter15. Group Behavior, Self-examination and Clearing the Air around Controversial Issues,David B. Allison16. Confederate Memorials: Choosing Futures for Our Past, A Veteran’s Perspective,George McDaniel17. Speech upon the Removal of Confederate Statues from New Orleans, May 19, 2017,Mitch Landrieu18. A Reflection of Us: The Simpsons and Heroes of the Past, Edited for Revised Edition, Jose ZunigaPart V: COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS AND HISTORICAL RE-CONTEXTUALIZATIONChapter19. “The Struggle to Overcome the Negatives of the Past”: Germany’sVergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Program, DavidB. Allison 20. “We as Citizens.…”: Approaches to Memorialization by Sites of Conscience around the World, Edited for Revised Edition, Linda Norris21. Monumental Relationships: International Monument Culture and the United States in the Early 21st Century, Laura A. Macaluso22. Listening and Responding to Community: A Long View, David B. Allison23. Confederate Statues at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben Wright24. Honoring El Movimiento: the Chicano Movement in Colorado, JJ Lonsinger Rutherford25. Not What's Broken; What's Healed: Women in El Barrio and the Healing Power of Community, Vanessa Cuervo Forero26. Telling the Whole Story: Education and Interpretation in Support of #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Elizabeth Pickard27. Project Say Something’s Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History, But Building Up Hope, Brian Murphy28. Changing of the Guard: Curating a New Conversation Around Colorado’s Toppled Civil War Monument, Jason L. HansonCONCLUSIONAppendixBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors
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University of Tennessee Press Building Power: Architecture and Surveillance in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Andrzejewski's application of Foucault's panoptic theory to a broad rangeof building typologies serves to test his more metaphorical notion of thegaze in a diversity of situations beyond that of the prison. . . . Theauthor's comparative method is original and yields new insight into thewidespread role of surveillance in American life.” -Ken Breisch, University of Southern California “Building Power is a major contribution to the history of architecture, vernacular theory, and the study of surveillance. Andrzejewski integrates social and architectural history, spurring the reader to new conclusions about important issues of power and space. It will pave the way for new scholarship in art history, American studies, and American history.” —Carla Yanni, Rutgers University
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University Press of New England Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks The
Book SynopsisAn architectural study of the large Adirondack hotels that focuses on the cultural history of travel and tourism.
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University of Utah Press,U.S. Wonders of Sand and Stone: A History of Utah's
Book SynopsisFrom Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah's five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America's most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. Readers are introduced to the region's early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to build the system of parks and monuments we know today, when Utah's national parks and monuments face multiple challenges from increased human use and from development outside their borders. As scientists continue to uncover the astonishing diversity of life in these desert and mountain landscapes, and archaeologists and Native Americans document their rich cultural resources, the management of these federal lands remains critically important. Swanson provides us with a detailed and timely background to advance and inform discussions about what form that management should take.Trade Review“Swanson’s affection for these landscapes, captured in his narrative prose, is contagious. This book will make a splendid traveling companion for any visitor to Utah’s national parks and monuments. It supplies an accessible, well-informed, and lively account of the formation and preservation of these national treasures.” —Brian Q. Cannon, coauthor of The Awkward State of Utah “An engaging and finely written book that weaves together an impressive group of individuals and stories.” —Jedediah S. Rogers, coeditor of Utah Historical Quarterly and author of Roads in the Wilderness “Fred Swanson knows Utah and its national parks intimately and in this important book digs deeply into the fascinating history of the magnificent public lands there. A significant addition to national park history.” —John C. Miles, author of Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve “A masterpiece of scholarly research coupled with a skill in storytelling that is sure to engage even the casual reader who has an interest in the conservation of Utah’s wild and scenic treasures.” —Hank Hassell, author of Rainbow Bridge: An Illustrated History
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University Press of New England Porches of North America
Book SynopsisA complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature
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University of Massachusetts Press Lost Wonderland: The Brief and Brilliant Life of
Book SynopsisIf you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat nearby -- the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened in Revere on Memorial Day in 1906 to great fanfare, Wonderland offered hundreds of thousands of visitors recreation by the sea, just a short distance from downtown Boston. The story of the park's creation and wild, but brief, success is full of larger-than-life characters who hoped to thrill attendees and rake in profits. Stephen R. Wilk describes the planning and history of the park, which featured early roller coasters, a scenic railway, a central lagoon in which a Shoot-the-Chutes boat plunged, an aerial swing, a funhouse, and more. Performances ran throughout the day, including a daring Fires and Flames show; a Wild West show; a children's theater; and numerous circus acts. While nothing remains of what was once called "Boston's Regal Home of Pleasure" and the park would close in 1910, this book resurrects Wonderland by transporting readers through its magical gates.Trade Review"This fascinating account of Revere’s Wonderland Amusement Park in the early years of the twentieth century celebrates the industrial achievements of the era—mechanization and the electricity—that brought entertainment to the bourgeoning American middle class."—Maria Olia, author of Discovering Vintage Boston: A Guide to the City’s Timeless Shops, Bars, Restaurants & More
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Us Commission of Fine Arts American Shrines
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America Through Time The National Capital Area
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Thunder Bay Press History of the World in 500 Buildings
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Minnesota Historical Society Press Our Minnesota State Capitol: From Groundbreaking
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Reaktion Books Star Theatre: The Story of the Planetarium
Book SynopsisMost of us can recall a childhood visit to a planetarium: the sense of anticipation, the room darkening, the stars coming up, the voice of the astronomer. In the planetarium, the wondrous complexity of the cosmos combines with entertainment in a theatre of the night. But how and where did the planetarium originate? What kind of simulation of the solar system and the universe does the planetarium produce? How does the planetarium mix theatre with science? And how has it changed with developments in astronomy? Star Theatre explores the history of this unique building, designed to reveal the universe around us on an ever-expanding scale. It traces its historical origins, from the early precedents for the planetarium, to its invention in Germany in the 1920s, its developments in the USSR and the United States, its expansion across the globe at the time of the space race and the evolution of the contemporary planetarium in the recent period of startling astronomical and cosmological discoveries. This concise, well-illustrated history will appeal to planetarium lovers as well as those interested in astronomy, architecture, theatre and cinema.
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Berghahn Books Power and Architecture: The Construction of
Book Synopsis Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.Trade Review “…a volume which, through its innovative approach, provides numerous valuable insights.” · Contemporary European Studies “This collection of provocative urban histories makes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary discourse on power and architecture defined by national political regimes. These studies reveal how architecture exercises social control not just through its material reality, but also, and perhaps more subtly, as a discursive framework that shapes cultural narratives and social identities.” · Power and Architecture “…a confidence in the power of architecture as a progressive force is palpable at many points in this fascinating collection of papers. With nearly a hundred photographs, maps or illustrations, this book has been lovingly produced, and it confirms Nietzsche’s thesis that there is a close link between architecture and the search for knowledge.” · Journal of European Studies “…a fascinating topic for architects, urban designers and urban master planners…the interaction of political power, political-philosophical ideas about the state, and built form...The contributors are clearly experts on their topics, and no single author could ever have handled the [subject matter] with this combination of breadth and depth.” · Sir Peter Hall, University College LondonTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Introduction: Power and Architecture—the Construction of Capitals, the Politics of Space, and the Space of Politics: An Introductory Essay Michael Minkenberg Chapter 1. Capital Architecture and National Identity Lawrence J. Vale Chapter 2. A City of the People, by the People, for the People? Democracy and Capital Building in Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra and Brasília Michael Minkenberg Chapter 3. Capital-building in Post War Germany Klaus von Beyme Chapter 4. Berlin—Three Centuries as Capital Christoph Asendorf Chapter 5. Image, Itinerary and Identity in the “Third” Rome Terry Kirk Chapter 6. ‘A Capital Without A Nation:’ Red Vienna, Power, and Spatial Politics Between the World Wars Eve Blau Chapter 7. The Ruins of Socialism: Reconstruction and Destruction in Warsaw David Crowley Chapter 8. State Building as an Urban Experience: The Making of Ankara Alev Çınar Chapter 9. Building Capital Mindscapes for the European Union Carola Hein Index
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Rowman & Littlefield International In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect,
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialisation of deadly military stand-off. They were also a symbol of a deeply affective, pervasive anxiety about the prospect of world-destroying nuclear war. But following the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 these sites were swiftly abandoned, and exposed to both material and semantic ruination. This volume investigates the uses and meanings now projected onto these seeming blank, derelict spaces. It explores how engagements with bunker ruins provide fertile ground for the study of improvised meaning making, place-attachment, hobby practices, social materiality and trauma studies. With its commentators ranging across the arts and humanities and the social sciences, this multi-disciplinary collection sets a concern with the phenomenological qualities of these places as contemporary ruins – and of their strange affective affordances – alongside scholarship examining how these places embody, and/or otherwise connect with their Cold War originations and purpose both materially and through memory and trauma. Each contribution reflexively considers the process of engaging with these places – and whether via the archive or direct sensory immersion. In doing so the book broadens the bunker’s contemporary signification and contributes to theoretically informed analysis of ruination, place attachment, meaning making, and material culture.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and absorbing set of journeys into some of the formerly secret spaces of the Cold War. In the footsteps of MacFarlane, Sebald and Virilio, and forging their own paths, the contributors lead us from Norway to Albania and from the United States to Taiwan. An essential complement to contemporary work on the vertical spaces above ground. -- Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of WarwickLuke Bennett has brought together international research on real and imagined Cold War bunkers. Readers are introduced to the bunker and Cold War histories through an enchanting mix of chapters that attend to the bunker’s stubborn materiality, visual representation and the visceral experiences they invite. This book should be read by anyone – scholars, curators, and enthusiasts included – interested in what ‘ruins’ mean in the 21st century. -- Hilary Geoghegan, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of ReadingProvocative and informative yet personal and thoughtful, this diverse collection of essays offers a much needed exploration of that defining cultural space of the 20th century – the bunker. Bennett and his collaborators approach the ruins of the Cold War not just as historical curiosities but as the starting point for a myriad of trans-disciplinary journeys and adventures. -- Ian Klinke, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and the author of the forthcoming monograph Cryptic Concrete: A Subterranean Journey to Cold War Germany.With its extensive and authoritative inquiry into the entire field of ruins, the Cold War bunker, and of its affect, materiality, and meaning the world over, Luke Bennett’s In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker is an essential source book for anyone interested in the Cold War bunker as motive, memorial, or munition. -- John Armitage, Professor, Winchester School of Art, University of SouthamptonA captivating account of the multifaceted ways in which bunkers, the most iconic of Cold War spaces, are rendered meaningful by various “communities of practice” in the 21st century. By its interdisciplinary approach, global reach and emphasis on material-affective agencies, the book breaks new ground - and made me realize that in one way or another, the now abandoned structures have traumatized us all and will always be alive. -- Dr. Silvia Berger Ziauddin, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich and author of forthcoming monograph Survival Cell, Territory, Brothel: The Bunker in Cold War Switzerland and BeyondTable of ContentsContents / List of figures and tables / Acknowledgements / Part I: Introducing the bunker: Ruins, hunters and motives / 1. Approaching the bunker: Exploring the Cold War through its ruins, Luke Bennett / 2. Entering the bunker with Paul Virilio: The Atlantic Wall, Pure War and trauma, Luke Bennett / Part II: Looking at the bunker: representation, image and affect / 3. Peripheral artefacts: Drawing [out] the Cold War, Stephen Felmingham / 4. Sublime concrete: The fantasy bunker, explored, Kathrine Sandys / 5. Processual engagements: Sebaldian pilgrimages to Orford Ness, Louise K. Wilson / Part III: Embracing the bunker: Identity, materiality and memory 6. Torås fort: A speculative study of war architecture in the landscape, Matthew Flintham / 7. Bunker and cave counterpoint: Exploring underground Cold War landscapes in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, María Alejandra Pérez / 8. Recuperative materialities: The Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival, J.J. Zhang / 9. Once upon a time in Ksamil: Communist and post-communist biographies of mushroom-shaped bunkers in Albania, Emily Glass / Part IV: Dealing with the bunker: hunting, visiting and re-making / 10. Popular historical geographies of the Cold War: Hunting, recording and playing with small munitions bunkers in Germany, Gunnar Maus / 11. ‘A nice day out?’: Exploring heritage (and) tourism discourses at Cold War bunker sites in Britain, Inge Hermann / 12. Preserving and managing York Cold War bunker: Authenticity, curation and the visitor experience, Rachael Bowers & Kevin Booth / 13. Atoombunker Arnhem: An architect’s new uses for old bunkers, Arno Geesink / Part V: Conclusion / 14. Presencing the bunker: Past, present and future, Luke Bennett / Index / Contributors /
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Rowman & Littlefield International In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect,
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War military and civil defence bunkers were an evocative materialisation of deadly military stand-off. They were also a symbol of a deeply affective, pervasive anxiety about the prospect of world-destroying nuclear war. But following the sudden fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 these sites were swiftly abandoned, and exposed to both material and semantic ruination. This volume investigates the uses and meanings now projected onto these seeming blank, derelict spaces. It explores how engagements with bunker ruins provide fertile ground for the study of improvised meaning making, place-attachment, hobby practices, social materiality and trauma studies. With its commentators ranging across the arts and humanities and the social sciences, this multi-disciplinary collection sets a concern with the phenomenological qualities of these places as contemporary ruins – and of their strange affective affordances – alongside scholarship examining how these places embody, and/or otherwise connect with their Cold War originations and purpose both materially and through memory and trauma. Each contribution reflexively considers the process of engaging with these places – and whether via the archive or direct sensory immersion. In doing so the book broadens the bunker’s contemporary signification and contributes to theoretically informed analysis of ruination, place attachment, meaning making, and material culture.Trade ReviewAn intriguing and absorbing set of journeys into some of the formerly secret spaces of the Cold War. In the footsteps of MacFarlane, Sebald and Virilio, and forging their own paths, the contributors lead us from Norway to Albania and from the United States to Taiwan. An essential complement to contemporary work on the vertical spaces above ground. -- Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography, University of WarwickLuke Bennett has brought together international research on real and imagined Cold War bunkers. Readers are introduced to the bunker and Cold War histories through an enchanting mix of chapters that attend to the bunker’s stubborn materiality, visual representation and the visceral experiences they invite. This book should be read by anyone – scholars, curators, and enthusiasts included – interested in what ‘ruins’ mean in the 21st century. -- Hilary Geoghegan, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of ReadingProvocative and informative yet personal and thoughtful, this diverse collection of essays offers a much needed exploration of that defining cultural space of the 20th century – the bunker. Bennett and his collaborators approach the ruins of the Cold War not just as historical curiosities but as the starting point for a myriad of trans-disciplinary journeys and adventures. -- Ian Klinke, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and the author of the forthcoming monograph Cryptic Concrete: A Subterranean Journey to Cold War Germany.With its extensive and authoritative inquiry into the entire field of ruins, the Cold War bunker, and of its affect, materiality, and meaning the world over, Luke Bennett’s In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker is an essential source book for anyone interested in the Cold War bunker as motive, memorial, or munition. -- John Armitage, Professor, Winchester School of Art, University of SouthamptonA captivating account of the multifaceted ways in which bunkers, the most iconic of Cold War spaces, are rendered meaningful by various “communities of practice” in the 21st century. By its interdisciplinary approach, global reach and emphasis on material-affective agencies, the book breaks new ground - and made me realize that in one way or another, the now abandoned structures have traumatized us all and will always be alive. -- Dr. Silvia Berger Ziauddin, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich and author of forthcoming monograph Survival Cell, Territory, Brothel: The Bunker in Cold War Switzerland and BeyondTable of ContentsContents / List of figures and tables / Acknowledgements / Part I: Introducing the bunker: Ruins, hunters and motives / 1. Approaching the bunker: Exploring the Cold War through its ruins, Luke Bennett / 2. Entering the bunker with Paul Virilio: The Atlantic Wall, Pure War and trauma, Luke Bennett / Part II: Looking at the bunker: representation, image and affect / 3. Peripheral artefacts: Drawing [out] the Cold War, Stephen Felmingham / 4. Sublime concrete: The fantasy bunker, explored, Kathrine Sandys / 5. Processual engagements: Sebaldian pilgrimages to Orford Ness, Louise K. Wilson / Part III: Embracing the bunker: Identity, materiality and memory 6. Torås fort: A speculative study of war architecture in the landscape, Matthew Flintham / 7. Bunker and cave counterpoint: Exploring underground Cold War landscapes in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, María Alejandra Pérez / 8. Recuperative materialities: The Kinmen Tunnel Music Festival, J.J. Zhang / 9. Once upon a time in Ksamil: Communist and post-communist biographies of mushroom-shaped bunkers in Albania, Emily Glass / Part IV: Dealing with the bunker: hunting, visiting and re-making / 10. Popular historical geographies of the Cold War: Hunting, recording and playing with small munitions bunkers in Germany, Gunnar Maus / 11. ‘A nice day out?’: Exploring heritage (and) tourism discourses at Cold War bunker sites in Britain, Inge Hermann / 12. Preserving and managing York Cold War bunker: Authenticity, curation and the visitor experience, Rachael Bowers & Kevin Booth / 13. Atoombunker Arnhem: An architect’s new uses for old bunkers, Arno Geesink / Part V: Conclusion / 14. Presencing the bunker: Past, present and future, Luke Bennett / Index / Contributors /
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Berghahn Books Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after
Book Synopsis Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.Trade Review “I highly recommend this thoughtful, well-written book for all who are interested in understanding the place of the GDR in contemporary debates about the past and the present and for gaining insight into a certain sense of German national identity by examining lessons Germans draw from this past.” • Sehepunkte “The volume, which is based on a solid and extensive bibliography, but also on the examination of daily principles and archival research, offers a very readable, detailed and extensive analysis. The theme of monuments, in its various aspects, offers itself as a useful tool to deepen the process of memorialization of the German Democratic Republic, treasuring the most recent debates.” • Richerche di Storia Politica “All in all, Saunders makes a firm contribution to the field by showing how monuments can be important sites for democratic engagement around which multiple narratives can converge. Her wide-ranging monograph provides a needed update of the classic question about the relationship between monuments and memory and is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the memory of the GDR. Often poignant, sometimes playful, and occasionally provocative, the cases presented here ultimately tell of a grappling with the recent past that is, in its own way, one of the unheralded success stories of unification.” • H-Soz-Kult “Saunders’ greatest achievement with this thoroughly researched and persuasively argued book is revealing the catalyzing role monuments have played as vehicles for negotiating new postreunification German identity. Her balanced approach to monuments, which considers them above all ‘as processes and social spaces, rather than as fixed spaces or static objects’ is unique and should be a model for other researchers.” • German Politics and Society “This is a consistently high-quality monograph, founded on a thorough awareness of memory politics. It reaches persuasive conclusions that challenge established theoretical positions in the field, especially in the way it highlights the dynamic two-way relationship between communicative and cultural memory in the evolution of post-unification memorials.” • Dennis Tate, University of BathTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Key Terms Introduction Chapter 1. Memory, Monuments and Memorialization Chapter 2. Socialist Icons: From Heroes to Villains? Chapter 3. Soviet Special Camps: Reassessing a Repressed Past Chapter 4. 17 June 1953 Uprisings: Remembering a Failed Revolution Chapter 5. The Berlin Wall: Historical Document, Tourist Magnet or Urban Eyesore? Chapter 6. Remembering the 'Peaceful Revolution' and German Unity Conclusion: Beyond the Palimpset Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after
Book Synopsis Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory, investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic, political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history, as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of identity.Trade Review “I highly recommend this thoughtful, well-written book for all who are interested in understanding the place of the GDR in contemporary debates about the past and the present and for gaining insight into a certain sense of German national identity by examining lessons Germans draw from this past.” • Sehepunkte “The volume, which is based on a solid and extensive bibliography, but also on the examination of daily principles and archival research, offers a very readable, detailed and extensive analysis. The theme of monuments, in its various aspects, offers itself as a useful tool to deepen the process of memorialization of the German Democratic Republic, treasuring the most recent debates.” • Richerche di Storia Politica “All in all, Saunders makes a firm contribution to the field by showing how monuments can be important sites for democratic engagement around which multiple narratives can converge. Her wide-ranging monograph provides a needed update of the classic question about the relationship between monuments and memory and is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the memory of the GDR. Often poignant, sometimes playful, and occasionally provocative, the cases presented here ultimately tell of a grappling with the recent past that is, in its own way, one of the unheralded success stories of unification.” • H-Soz-Kult “Saunders’ greatest achievement with this thoroughly researched and persuasively argued book is revealing the catalyzing role monuments have played as vehicles for negotiating new postreunification German identity. Her balanced approach to monuments, which considers them above all ‘as processes and social spaces, rather than as fixed spaces or static objects’ is unique and should be a model for other researchers.” • German Politics and Society “This is a consistently high-quality monograph, founded on a thorough awareness of memory politics. It reaches persuasive conclusions that challenge established theoretical positions in the field, especially in the way it highlights the dynamic two-way relationship between communicative and cultural memory in the evolution of post-unification memorials.” • Dennis Tate, University of BathTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Key Terms Introduction Chapter 1. Memory, Monuments and Memorialization Chapter 2. Socialist Icons: From Heroes to Villains? Chapter 3. Soviet Special Camps: Reassessing a Repressed Past Chapter 4. 17 June 1953 Uprisings: Remembering a Failed Revolution Chapter 5. The Berlin Wall: Historical Document, Tourist Magnet or Urban Eyesore? Chapter 6. Remembering the 'Peaceful Revolution' and German Unity Conclusion: Beyond the Palimpset Bibliography Index
£26.55
Berghahn Books Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place
Book Synopsis Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.Trade Review “Understood as a starting point for further inquiries into practices of mourning, burial and grief, this volume deserves broad attention, not least because it succeeds in embedding its case studies within a broad cultural, social and political history.” • European History Quarterly “Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the war and treats what happened after only in relation to the Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition to the library of every scholar of modern Germany.” • German Politics & Society “[The volume] offers a significant contribution to theories of death and memory work in German Studies. [It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently written.” • German Studies Review “Taken together, the volume provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in twentieth-century Germany…for anybody interested in the social and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an indispensable starting point.” • German HistoryTable of Contents Introduction Paul Betts, Alon Confino, Dirk Schumann PART I: BODIES Chapter 1. How the Germans Learned to Wage War. On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars Michael Geyer Chapter 2. The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War Richard Bessel Chapter 3. Rebuilding and Reburying: Emergency Cemeteries in Berlin after ‘Zero Hour’ Monica Black PART II: DISPOSAL Chapter 4. Fanning the Flames – Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany Simone Ameskamp Chapter 5. Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945 – 1990 Felix Robin Schulz Chapter 6. Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympics Kay Schiller Chapter 7. When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht Paul Betts PART III: SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 8. A Common Experience of Death: Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923 Tim Grady Chapter 9. Laughing about death? `German Humor´ in the Two World Wars Martina Kessel Chapter 10. Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife. Between Nazism and Religion Alon Confino Chapter 11. Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany Gabriel Finder PART IV: RUINS Chapter 12. The Imagination of Disaster. Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany Svenja Goltermann Chapter 13. European Melancholy and the Inability to Listen: Sebald, Politics, and Death Daniel Steuer Chapter 14. A Cemetery in Berlin Peter Fritzsche Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
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Historic England The Conservation, Repair and Management of War
Book SynopsisThis guidance is intended for anyone interested in or responsible for the care of war memorials. This might include parish, local and district councils, conservation professionals, contractors, statutory bodies, volunteer groups or private owners. Although the guidance covers the setting of war memorials, more detailed information on landscape issues can be found in the publication The Conservation and Management of War Memorial Landscapes. When it refers to `custodians’, the document is addressing anyone who has taken on formal responsibility for a war memorial, whether or not they are its legal owner. The guidance describes current best practice on the understanding, assessment, planning and implementation of conservation work to memorials as well as their ongoing maintenance and protection. It also outlines the legal frameworks and statutory duties that relate to their ownership and care. War memorials have always had a deep emotional resonance with the people of this country. Whether on a national, civic or local level, they act as constant reminders of the ultimate price of war – collective monuments to the many lives lost as well as a means of remembering the names of the individual servicemen and women who paid that price. The majority of war memorials date from the 20th century, and most of those from the years after the First World War. National and city memorials were generally monumental in concept and size but in towns and villages they tended to be more modest in style. Whatever their appearance, they continue to act as focal points for the commemoration of those killed and affected by war and as places for reflection on the effects of their loss on a community and society as a whole. In addition to their continuing commemorative role, many war memorials are of significant architectural, historic or artistic quality and have become key parts of the historic environment; it is therefore important that their physical condition should be safeguarded for the benefit of future generations as well as our own. Table of Contents1. Definition 2. Best practice 3. History and development of war memorials 4. Legislation 5. The setting of war memorials 6. Principal materials used in war memorials 7. Inscriptions and types of lettering 8. Decay, deterioration and damage to war memorials 9. Assessing and recording condition of war memorials 10. Practical conservation treatment - introduction 11. Practical conservation treatment - repair 12. Practical conservation treatment - cleaning 13. Commissioning and undertaking conservation work 14. Management and maintenance of war memorials 15. Funding for war memorials 16. Where to get advice 17. References and further reading
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Reaktion Books Airspaces TOPOGRAPHICS
Book SynopsisAs mass air transport shrinks the world and requires airport complexes large enough to be regarded as self-contained cities. This book argues that airspace - that transitional area stretching from terminal to terminal, across time zones or between the check-in desk and the baggage carousel - must be regarded as a discrete destination on any map.
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Reaktion Books Theme Park
Book SynopsisTheme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century, as Scott Lukas now reveals in his compelling book. "Theme Park" takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them. Ultimately, "Theme Park" reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores and casinos that employ the techniques of amusement parks to dominate our current entertainment world. Packed with captivating illustrations, "Theme Park" takes us on a historical roller-coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods and anticipates the future of escapism and fantasy fun.Trade Review'An intriguing and beautifully styled book ... the examples presented of modern theme-park practice make for compelling reading. Theme parks enable international travel without the worry of jet lag; pilgrims can journey to the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, where the visitor is greeted with a welcoming "Shalom" instead of checkpoints for potential suicide bombers.' - Times Higher Education 'This book is both a sophisticated social scientific review of the history, development and transformation of theme parks and an entertaining and extremely well-written journey through the world's vacation venues ... Lukas provides a variety of perspectives and insights into this interesting aspect of an alternative social experience ... fun and informative ... a memorable ride.' - Studies in Popular Culture 'Written from an anthropological and sociological perspective, Lukas puts forward an intriguing and fresh view on the definition and relevance of theme parks to our everyday lives. Indeed, he believes that they have achieved a wider significance by becoming complex representations of the human mind itself ... this beautifully illustrated and enthralling book convinces the reader to sympathize with Lukas ' view that the world is rapidly becoming a reflection of the theme park.' - Journal of Design History 'provides a comprehensive and sometimes compelling intellectual journey through the history of pleasure gardens, world fairs, amusement parks, theme parks, megamalls, and virtual spaces like Second Life. By charting the history of the present of the modern theme park form, and the ways that these sites might shape future possibilities, Lukas provides an insightful text for scholars in cultural geography, cultural studies, and tourism studies.' - Journal of Cultural Geography 'provide[s] insightful and worthwhile views into recent and contemporary travel experiences.' - Tourism Geographies
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Ad Ilissum The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford
Book SynopsisPevsner calls it ‘marvellous’. Yet the reredos of the fifteenth-century chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, with its combination of medieval niches and statuary by George Gilbert Scott, has remained one of the unsung glories of both medieval perpendicular architecture and Victorian restoration. Informed by recent scientifi c investigation of its stonework and its surviving medieval polychromy, this volume traces for the fi rst time the entire history of the reredos in its architectural and religious context – from the phases of its medieval and early Tudor construction, through its covering up with a succession of baroque and neoclassical decorative schemes, to its uncovering andrestoration in the 1870s.The book provides a novel and revealing vantage point on the artistic, cultural and ecclesiological history of Britain across four centuries.Trade ReviewA real revelation and a genuine pleasure to read. The editor has assembled an expert cast of contributors who, between them, brilliantly tell the story of how changing tastes in art, education, and religion played out at All Souls, superbly illustrated in a slew of colour pictures ... It is, all told, a triumph. * Church Times *
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Oregon State University Press Collegiate Architecture and Landscape in the West
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West Virginia University Press Cass Gilbert's West Virginia State Capitol
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, West Virginia was in the throes of its formative years as a state. After more than two decades of alternating its government seat between Wheeling and Charleston and the destruction of the Gothic Revival Capitol in Charleston by fire in 1921, a building commission was formed to create a permanent Capitol that would display the young state's pride, wealth, and sophistication to the entire nation. To achieve these goals, the legislature approved a budget of more than $6.5 million for the design and construction of this statehouse and the Commission appointed by the Governor hired internationally renowned Cass Gilbert as its architect. After much debate, an impressive site along the shore of the Kanawha River in Charleston was selected as its location.As one of the most influential architects of the early twentieth century, Cass Gilbert is known for structures such as the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, and the Minnesota State Capitol. He believed architecture should reflect historic tradition and established social order, and this conservative philosophy is evinced within the classic form and proportions of the West Virginia State Capitol. As one of his final commissions, the West Virginia Capitol, with its golden ""dome of majestic proportion,"" marble interiors, ornamental reliefs, and rich woodwork, remains a distinguished example of noble simplicity in American architecture.Cass Gilbert's West Virginia State Capitol narrates the intricate story behind this architectural feat. Its close examination of the design, construction, and execution of this commission not only reveals the social, political, and financial climate of West Virginia during this period but also provides insight into the cultural importance of this public building. As Cass Gilbert's design process is traced through unpublished documentation, drawings, and letters from several archives, the over one hundred accompanying photographs - many historical and others newly commissioned for this book - divulge the subtle beauty of the Capitol complex. At the same time, an extensive analysis of historical and contemporary illustrations and primary sources further elucidates the architectural value of this structure.With welcomes by West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and State Senator Brooks F. McCabe, Jr., a prologue by art historians Bernard Schultz and Mary L. Soldo Schultz, and an epilogue by Chad Proudfoot, this revealing and comprehensive study examines the importance of this often overlooked architectural accomplishment, solidifying its significance as a socio-political symbol as well as its place within the history of American public architecture.
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University of Nevada Press The Genesis of Reno: The History of the Riverside
Book SynopsisOver 157 years ago—before there was a Reno, Nevada; before there was a state of Nevada; and even before there was a Nevada Territory—there was a bridge over the Truckee River at a narrow, deeply rutted cattle and wagon trail that would one day become Virginia Street. There was also a small rustic inn and tavern occupying a plot of ground at the southern end of the log-and-timber bridge, catering to thirsty cowboys, drovers, and miners. The inn and the bridge were the first two structures in what would one day be a bustling metropolitan area, and to this day they still form the nucleus of the city. The Genesis of Reno, traces their history up to the present day. The 111-year-old concrete bridge that was replaced in 2016 by a magnificent new structure was honored for its longevity and unique character with placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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University of Nevada Press A Tale of Two Bridges: The San Francisco-Oakland
Book SynopsisA Tale of Two Bridges is a history of two versions of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge: the original bridge built in 1936 and a replacement for the eastern half of the bridge finished in 2013. The 1936 bridge revolutionized transportation in the Bay Area and profoundly influenced settlement patterns in the region. It was also a remarkable feat of engineering. In the 1950s the American Society of Civil Engineers adopted a list of the “Seven Engineering Wonders” of the United States. The 1936 structure was the only bridge on the list, besting even the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. One of its greatest achievements was that it was built on time (in less than three years) and came in under budget. Mikesell explores in fascinating detail how the bridge was designed by a collection of the best-known engineers in the country as well as the heroic story of its construction by largely unskilled laborers from California, joined by highly skilled steel workers. By contrast, the East Span replacement, which was planned between 1989 and 1998, and built between 1998 and 2013, fell victim to cost overruns in the billions of dollars, was a decade behind schedule, and suffered from structural problems that has made it a perpetual maintenance nightmare. This is narrative history in its purest form. Mikesell excels at explaining highly technical engineering issues in language that can be understood and appreciated by general readers. Here is the story of two very important bridges, which provides a fair but uncompromising analysis of why one bridge succeeded and the other did not.Trade ReviewThis is an engaging and well-written account of the design and construction of two radically different bridges. Stephen Mikesell is excellent at telling a hugely complex and technical story in an approachable and engaging way. The propulsive narrative is unfailingly entertaining and takes us behind the scenes of two defining and contrasting projects in the history of California."" - Luis G. Hoyos RA, Professor of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona""Stephen Mikesell is one of the most prominent professional historians working in the state of California today. During his long and distinguished career, Mikesell has developed a special expertise in the history of bridge design, engineering, and construction. Today he is widely recognized as the leading authority on the history of bridges in California. Consequently, there is no one better qualified to write a history of the spectacular and controversial San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges."" - Michael Magliari, Professor of History, California State University, Chico
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University of Nevada Press The San Francisco Civic Center: A History of the
Book SynopsisThe San Francisco Civic Center tells the 150-year story of San Francisco's city halls and Civic Center. The grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, the Civic Center is one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement and a stunning manifestation of one of the nation's most dynamic and creative cities.Trade Review"Jim Haas takes his record of service to the City to a higher level by bringing to light the unique history of the Civic Center. By doing so, he helps us not only to understand how the Civic Center came to be, but also to grasp its significance and central place in San Francisco's past, present, and future."— Senator Dianne Feinstein, from the foreword"That notoriously Victorian city, San Francisco, does occasionally surprise with moments of unbounded classicism: its City Hall represents one of the best and most beautiful expressions of the style. Happily, James Haas has done the buildings justice in his thorough and exhilarating book, which I consider a must-read for any devotee of Classical Architecture, or any architecture for that matter!"— Peter Lyden, President, Institute of Classical Architecture and ArtNobody in San Francisco knows Civic Center and its maddening saga—a strange mix of triumphs and pratfalls at urban scale—better than James Haas. This new book makes that history available to all of us, a spirited resource that provides context for whatever might come next. — John King, Urban Design Critic, San Francisco Chronicle"We're often strangely drawn to love affairs. I deeply admire Jim Haas' passion and persistence in pursuit of his love for San Francisco's Civic Center. This exquisite book invites us to eavesdrop on and understand why our thoughtful author has stayed so loyal to this urban architecture love affair." — Chip Conley, hospitality entrepreneur and bestselling author"San Francisco's remarkable Civic Center comes alive in this book. Not only is it a comprehensive history of the Civic Center, it is an extremely thoughtful reminder of how public spaces and public buildings can be monuments of democracy and design."— William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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University of Nevada Press Healing Las Vegas: The Las Vegas Community
Book SynopsisOn Sunday, October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from thirty-two floors above a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The event left fifty-eight people killed, more than 860 injured, and thousands psychologically wounded. To date, this was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in the last seventy years. Despite the chaos and terror, first responders, concert-goers, and passersby aided victims and survivors. Nearby businesses, hotels, and the university provided safety and services. Medical personnel rushed to area hospitals. And as the scope of the tragedy unfolded, the people of Las Vegas flooded blood donation centers and offered food, water, comfort, and care. And they created a garden—The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.The story of the garden unfolds through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counselors, and members of the community. In only a matter of days, volunteers and local businesses transformed a vacant downtown lot into a serene urban oasis. Families and friends of those lost in the tragedy soon adopted each of the fifty-eight trees planted in honor of their loved ones, and visitors left behind colorful mementos, including painted rocks, photographs, and ornaments, as well as words of encouragement, love, loss, and strength.In the aftermath of 1 October, an often misunderstood city revealed its soul under the most heartbreaking of circumstances. The inspirational voices and stories from a community touched by tragedy provide comfort and encouragement. And the organic response to the unthinkable is a testament to how one community came together at its darkest hour, chose hope over despair, unity over hate.Table of Contents Foreword October 1, 2017 How the Garden Came to Be Planting Hope Planting Love Planting Joy Planting Life Planting Peace Afterword Acknowledgments
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Quart Verlag Luzern The House That Kahn Built
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Baustatik: Teil 1: Grundlagen
Book SynopsisModeme Baukonstruktionen erfordern ein sorgfältiges Planen, Konstruieren und Ausfüh ren. Dazu sind solide Kenntnisse der Baustatik nötig. Dies gilt nicht nur für den Konstrukteur und Statiker, sondern auch für den Planenden im Architekturbüro und den Bauleiter auf der Baustelle. Bei der Planung, Konstruktion und Ausführung eines Bauwerkes ist nicht nur seine Funk tion ausschlaggebend. Um Bauschäden zu vermeiden, müssen die Baustoffe entsprechend ihren Eigenschaften eingesetzt werden; die Bauteile sind unter Beachtung ihrer statischen Bedeutung zu konstruieren und die jeweils neuesten Erkenntnisse der Bauphysik zu berücksichtigen. Das vorliegende zweiteilige Werk vermittelt die wichtigen einfachen statischen Gesetze und deren Anwendung im Rahmen einer technischen Allgemeinbildung; es dient nicht der Ausbildung spezialisierter Statiker. Manche Probleme werden daher bewußt vereinfacht und dem Zweck des Buches entsprechend besonders praxisnah dargestellt. Viele durchgerechne te Beispiele erläutern und vertiefen die Darstellung; eine sehr große Zahl von Übungsaufga ben, deren Lösungen am Bandende gebracht werden, soll zur sicheren Handhabung und breiten Anwendung des Stoffes befähigen. Die beiden Bände werden daher vielen in der Bautechnik Tätigen eine Hilfe bei der Lösung üblicher statischer Probleme sein; sie sind zum Selbststudium geeignet. Teil 1 "Grundlagen" geht auf die wichtigsten Probleme der einfachen Statik ein. Ohne komplizierte theoretische Ableitungen werden die Formeln entWickelt und dargestellt, die zur Bestimmung der äußeren und inneren Kräfte in den Bauteilen erforderlich sind. Besondere mathematische Kenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Teil 2 "Festigkeitslehre" erklärt die Beanspruchung der Bauteile und die Bemessung von Konstruktionsteilen aus Holz, Mauerwerk, Beton und Stahl sowie die Bodenpressung.Table of Contents1 Einführung.- 2 Wirkung der Kräfte.- 3 Bestimmung von Schwerpunkten.- 4 Belastung der Bauwerke.- 5 Standsicherheit der Bauwerke.- 6 Berechnung statisch bestimmter Tragwerke.- 7 Berechnung statisch unbestimmter Tragwerke.- Lösungen zu den Übungsbeispielen.- Formelzeichen und ihre Bedeutung.- Formelsammlung.- Schrifttum.- DIN-Normen zur Baustatik.- Sachweiser.
£36.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ein Haus, ein Aufruhr: Anmerkungen zu Zaha Hadids
Book SynopsisEine Auseinandersetzung mit dem ersten realisierten Bau der aus dem Irak stammenden, in London lebenden und an der AA lehrenden Architektin Zaha Hadid, dem Feuerwehrhaus auf dem Vitra-Firmengelände in Weil am Rhein: Essay, Fotos, Modelle, Collagen. Entscheidend die Einsicht, daß ein Werk der Architektur, das sich den architektonischen Konventionen entzieht, nicht mit denselben Mitteln wahrgenommen und beschrieben werden kann, wie sie uns von der Wahrnehmung und Beschreibung traditioneller Architektur vertraut sind.Table of ContentsDie Architektin Zaha Hadid - Befreiung aus den Diktaten üblicher Analysemethoden - Untersuchungen mittels Zeichnungen, Collagen, Modellen, Photograhien - Bezug zu Wahrnehmungstheoretikern: Roland Barthes, John Dewy und Gaston Bachelard
£999.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wohnungsbau und Wohnungswirtschaft in Russland:
Book SynopsisDieses Buch gibt einen Überblick zum aktuellen Wohnraumimmobilienmarkt in Russland. Untersucht werden die wichtigsten Marktteilnehmer und es erfolgt eine vergleichende Betrachtungen mit Deutschland zu Baukosten, Bauplanung, Bauqualität, Wohnraumfinanzierung und Wohnimmobilienpreise. Diese Untersuchung dient als Grundlage für das Verständnis des russischen Wohnraumimmobilienmarktes und liefert somit ein Basiswissen für ein allgemeines Marktverständnis und etwaige Investitionsvorhaben.Table of ContentsWohnraummärkte.- Wohnraumfinanzierungsmöglichkeiten.- Bauwirtschaft und Bauqualität.- Baukostenermittlung für Wohnungsbauvorhaben.- Investitionsstrategien zur Verbesserung der Wohnraumsituation in Russland.
£49.49
Hirmer Verlag The Humboldt Forum in the Berliner Schloss:
Book SynopsisThe Humboldt Forum, embodying the cosmopolitan world view of the brothers Humboldt, is to be housed in the historic, reconstructed Berlin Palace on Berlin’s Museum Island. It will be a unique space for art, culture, education and science. This publication provides a glimpse behind the scenes of this great construction project, developed by Italian architect Franco Stella.
£17.95
Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Arabic Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
£39.00
Hirmer Verlag The Library An Open Book Hebrew Edition
Book SynopsisCelebrating Herzog & de Meuron's iconic new National Library of Israel, this book takes the reader on a journey that transcends stone and mortar to explore the importance of libraries in our fastpaced Digital Age. The book features original short stories, paintings, photographs and comics by some of the world's leading authors and artists. This volume celebrates the culmination of a visionary 30 year project to renew the National Library of Israel led by Yad Hanadiv the Rothschild Foundation: Herzog & de Meuron's architectural icon in the heart of Jerusalem. It invites readers to think of the library as a public space, as an object, a concept and a spiritual entity. The book includes original stories by leading authors from Israel and abroad, artwork by Zoya Cherkassky, photographs by three outstanding Israeli photographers and a graphic novella by Rutu Modan. Published in conjunction with: the opening of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
£39.00
JOVIS Verlag Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book
Book SynopsisThe Japanese architect Takaharu Tezuka caused a stir in 2015 with his TEDtalk “The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen”. As the first text-focused publication, Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book now provides an insight into the design philosophy of the internationally renowned architecture firm. Based on a lecture by Tezuka at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), this “pocket guide” in scale and feel introduces the architects’ way of thinking, using examples of seminal projects in recent years. Buildings such as the Roof House (2001), the Child Chemo House (2013), or the Fuji Kindergarten (2007) illustrate the powerful impact of Takaharu and Yui Tezuka’s design and show how architecture can contribute actively to building a better society.
£14.72
