Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of ...
From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the worlds largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The ...
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the ...
In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can ...
For all archaeological artefactual evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Whereas the ...
In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications ...
In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor ...
This book deals with the exercise of power through display and the instentional manipulation by Fascist Italy of cultural forms and practices in order ...
