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

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

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

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

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

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

The contributors to this volume inspect the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Treated from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book both addresses and challenges issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.