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Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: The Scales of Global History in the Thai Nationalist Theme Park

Lawrence Chua

Lawrence Chua

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Archi.Pop : Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Situated in a zone of industrial factories and slum housing outside of Bangkok, Muang Boran theme park invites visitors to leave behind the grimy environment of present-day globalization and step back in historical time. Walking through its...

A Paper Atlantis

Jeffrey L. Meikle

Jeffrey L. Meikle

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The Banham Lectures : Essays on Designing the Future

Berg, 2009

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...Few travellers to America in the twentieth century were as enthusiastic or observant as Reyner Banham. And few recognized as fully as he did how much perceptions could be mediated by images seen before one had entered the United States....

A Pilgrimage to the Alcázar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain

Miriam Basilio

Miriam Basilio

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Architecture and Tourism : Perception, Performance and Place

Berg, 2004

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...Introduction On 18 July 1936 a group of right-wing generals launched a military uprising aiming to topple the democratically elected left-wing coalition government that led the Spanish Republic. This was the beginning of the Spanish Civil...

Accommodation and Agitation in Sevastopol: Redefining Socialist Space in the Postwar ‘City of Glory’

Karl D. Qualls

Karl D. Qualls

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...In late 1949 city officials stretched a banner that read ‘Sevastopolians! What have you done for the restoration of your hometown ’Slava Sevastopolia (hereafter Slava), 4 November 1949, p. 1. The translation of rodnoi gorod as ‘hometown...

Living in the Russian Present with a German Past: The Problems of Identity in the City of Kaliningrad.

Olga Sezneva

Olga Sezneva

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...I would like to thank the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, London, for its generous support of this project.Radio Armenia once asked ‘Is it possible to foretell the future?’Answer: ‘Yes, that is no problem: we know exactly what...

Curtains: Décor for the End of Empire

Mark Allen Svede

Mark Allen Svede

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...Within a polemic titled Advertisements for Architecture, Bernard Tschumi declared, ‘Architecture only survives where it negates the form that society expects of it. Where it negates itself by transgressing the limits that history has set...

Weekend Getaways: The Chata, the Tramp, and the Politics of Private Life in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

Paulina Bren

Paulina Bren

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...Research for this article was generously funded by the Fulbright-Hays Program and the Social Science Research Council.In August 1968 the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring – and with it,...

Architecture and Politics

Albena Yaneva

Albena Yaneva is Professor in Architectural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, UK and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, USA. She is the author of Mapping Controversies in Architecture (2012), The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist Approach to Architecture (2009), and Made by the Office for Metropolitan Design: An Ethnography of Design (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Five Ways to Make Architecture Political : An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Architecture and politics: Asymmetric ontologies Architecture is not solely an artistic practice concerned with aesthetic form and semiotics. Instead, it is a cultural form that has long-standing and close links with dominant political...

Politicized Reconstruction – the Project ‘Skopje 2014’

Julija Trichkovska

Julija Trichkovska

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Authentic Reconstruction : Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Those who have the possibility to control and design space have an important instrument to reproduce and enlarge their power. (Lechler 2010: 47; see also Harvey 1990)The tale of Skopje, the city that underwent many transformations...

Khrushchev's Children's Paradise: The Pioneer Palace, Moscow, 1958–1962

Susan E. Reid

Susan E. Reid

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...In this house the walls will teach.Should you ever be in Moscow, take a trip across the river to the green and pleasant area in the south-west of the city known today by its picturesque, traditional name, the Sparrow Hills (Vorob’evye...