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Author |
: Peter Bosselmann |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1998-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520918266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520918269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representation of Places by : Peter Bosselmann
People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how those changes will affect our lives. New modes of imaging technology—from two-dimensional maps, charts, and diagrams to computer models—allow professionals to explain their designs more clearly than ever before. Although architects and planners know how to read these representations, few outside the profession can interpret them, let alone understand what it would be like to walk along the streets such representations describe. Yet decisions on what gets built are significantly influenced by these very representations. A portion of Bosselmann's book is based on innovative experiments conducted at the University of California, Berkeley's Visual Simulation Laboratory. In a section titled "The City in the Laboratory," he discusses how visual simulation was applied to projects in New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto. The concerns that Bosselmann addresses have an impact on large segments of society, and lay readers as well as professionals will find much that is useful in his timely, accessibly written book.
Author |
: James S. Duncan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135860288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135860289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Place/Culture/Representation by : James S. Duncan
Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.
Author |
: Roberto Casati |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 026203266X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262032667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Parts and Places by : Roberto Casati
Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Their starting point is an analysis of the interplay betwen mereology (the study of part/whole relations), topology (the study of spatial continuity and comapctness) and the theory of spatial location proper. This leads to a unified framework for spatial representation understood quite broadly as a theory of the representation of spatial entities. The framework is then tested against some classical metaphysical questions such as: Are parts essential to their whole? Is spatial co-location a sufficient criterion of identity? What (if anything) distinguishes material objects from events and other spatial entities? The concluding chapters deal with applications to topics as diverse as the logical analysis of movement and the semantics of maps.
Author |
: Edward S. Casey |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816637156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816637157 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representing Place by : Edward S. Casey
"You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space--as well as our place in it--is the subject of Edward S. Casey's study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language--a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject." -- Book jacket.
Author |
: Peter Bosselmann |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520206584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520206588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Representation of Places by : Peter Bosselmann
People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how those changes will affect our lives. New modes of imaging technology—from two-dimensional maps, charts, and diagrams to computer models—allow professionals to explain their designs more clearly than ever before. Although architects and planners know how to read these representations, few outside the profession can interpret them, let alone understand what it would be like to walk along the streets such representations describe. Yet decisions on what gets built are significantly influenced by these very representations. A portion of Bosselmann's book is based on innovative experiments conducted at the University of California, Berkeley's Visual Simulation Laboratory. In a section titled "The City in the Laboratory," he discusses how visual simulation was applied to projects in New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto. The concerns that Bosselmann addresses have an impact on large segments of society, and lay readers as well as professionals will find much that is useful in his timely, accessibly written book.
Author |
: James S. Duncan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135860356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135860351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Place/Culture/Representation by : James S. Duncan
Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.
Author |
: Brooke L. Rogers |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2019-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848881266 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848881266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation by : Brooke L. Rogers
Author |
: Alberto Vanolo |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2017-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317337768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131733776X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis City Branding by : Alberto Vanolo
Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers. City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities explores different sides of place branding policies. The construction and the manipulation of urban images triggers a complex politics of representation, modifying the visibility and the invisibility of spaces, subjects, problems and discourses. In this sense, urban branding is not an innocent tool; this book aims to investigate and reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding. This book situates city branding within different geographical contexts and ‘ordinary’ cities, demonstrated through a number of international case studies. In order to map and contextualise the variety of urban imaginaries involved, author Alberto Vanolo incorporates conceptual tools from cultural studies and the embrace of an explicitly post-colonial perspective. This critical analysis of current place branding strategy is an essential reference for the study of city marketing.
Author |
: Barbara E.A. Piga |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2017-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319518046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319518046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Design and Representation by : Barbara E.A. Piga
This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach. Bringing together contributions by researchers and practicing professionals that approach the topics discussed from both theoretical and practical perspectives and draw on case-study applications, it addresses important themes including digital modeling, physical modeling, mapping, and simulation. The chapters are linked by their relevance to simple but crucial questions: How can representational solutions enhance an urban design approach in which people’s well-being is considered the primary goal? How can one best represent and design the ambiance of places? What kinds of technologies and tools are available to support multisensory urban design? How can current and future environments be optimally represented and simulated, taking into account the way in which we experience places? Shedding new light on these key questions, the book offers both a reference guide for those engaged in applied research, and a toolkit for professionals and students.
Author |
: Karolina Doughty |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788118934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788118936 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sounding Places by : Karolina Doughty
This edited collection examines the more-than-representational registers of sound. It asks how sound comes to be a meaningful ingredient in the microgeographies of place-making through the workings of affect, emotion, and atmosphere, how sound contributes to shaping a variety of embodied and spatially situated experiences, and how such aspects can be harnessed methodologically. These topics contribute to broader debates on the relations between representation and the non- or more-than-representational that are taking place across the social sciences and humanities in the wake of the cultural turn. More specifically, the book contributes to the fertile theoretical intersections of sound, affect, emotion, and atmosphere.