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Site matters : design concepts, histories, and strategies / edited by Carol J. Burns and Andrea Kahn

Author
Burns, Carol, 1954-
Published
New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxix, 340 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Additional Creators
Kahn, Andrea, 1958-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Around the corner : a photo essay / Lucy R. Lippard -- Claiming the site : evolving social-legal conceptions of ownership and property / Harvey M. Jacobs -- From place to site : negotiating narrative complexity / Robert A. Beauregard -- Ground work / Robin Dripps -- Site citations : the grounds of modern landscape architecture / Elizabeth Meyer -- Shifting sites / Kristina Hill -- Contested contexts / Sandy Isenstadt -- The suppressed site : revealing the influence of site on two purist works / Wendy Redfield -- Neighborhoods apart : site/non-sight and suburban apartments / Paul Mitchell Hess -- Study areas, sites, and the geographic approach to public action / Peter Marcuse -- Defining urban sites / Andrea Kahn -- High-performance sites / Carol J. Burns.
Summary
One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings. Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling through the 1980s as architects and planners alike developed a new appreciation of site, reincorporating the wider context into their plans. Theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory of this re-emergence of site, looking at Le Corbusier's designs, contemporary suburbs, and the planning agendas involved at the World Trade Center site. Groundbreaking and innovative, Site Matters provides valuable theory and vocabulary for planners and architects.
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ISBN
0203997964 (electronic bk.)
9780203997963 (electronic bk.)
9780415949750
0415949750
9780415949767
0415949769
9786610107094
6610107092
0415949769 (Paper)
0415949750 (hardback ; alk. paper)
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Note
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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