Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960û2000

by Crysler,C. Greig

• ISBN13: 9780415274920
• ISBN10: 0415274923
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Writing Spacesexamines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within-as well as beyond-the built environment disciplines. The analysis is situated in the context of the scholarly journal, which, the editor argues, has become a pre-eminent, if largely unexamined context for academic debates. Five influential publications, based in disciplines ranging from architectural history and theory, to urban studies and geography, act as case studies. Drawing on theories of representation, global cultural studies, and the sociology and political economy of knowledge, the editor explores the interplay between critical theories and the wide range of social and institutional forces that support, and inform their production. Writing Spacesargues that scholarly writing influences the priorities and values that inform professional practice, and hence, the built form of cities. The book will be a key resource for courses on criticaltheory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
Preface and acknowledgements	vii
1 INTRODUCTION	1	(28)
2 SILENT ITINERARIES: MAKING PLACES IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY	29	(28)
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
3 STRATEGIES OF DISTURBANCE AND THE "GENERATION OF THEORY"	57	(28)
Assemblage. A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture
4 UNSETTLED TRADITIONS AND GLOBAL MODERNITIES	85	(28)
The Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
5 ECONOMIES OF REPRESENTATION	113	(40)
The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
6 BODIES OF THEORY	153	(36)
Environment and Planning D. Society and Space
7 CONCLUSION	189	(16)
Writing Spaces and the Spaces of Writing
Selected bibliography	205	(28)
Index	233