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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2008.
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Schriftenreihe: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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Online-Zugang: | Volltext |
Zusammenfassung: | Annotation |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780820336626 0820336629 |
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spelling | Kolb, David. Sprawling places / David Kolb. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008. 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index. Places today -- What is a place? -- Place complexity -- Commodification, systems, and places -- Full theme ahead -- Suburban promises and problems -- Toward more complexity in suburbia. Print version record. Annotation <div>People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? In <i>Sprawling Places</i>, David Kolb questions widely held assumptions about our built environments.<p>Kolb agrees there is a lot not to like about many contemporary places, but to write them off simply as commodified nonplaces" does not treat them critically. Too often, Kolb says, aesthetic character and urban authenticity are the focus of critics, when it is more important to understand a place's complexity and connectedness. Kolb acknowledges that the places around us increasingly have banal exteriors, yet they can be complex and can encourage their inhabitants to use them in multiple, nonlinear ways. Ultimately, Kolb believes human activity within a place is what defines it. Even our most idealized, classical places, he shows, change over the course of history when subjected to new linkages and different flows of activity.</p><p>Engaging with the work of such writers and critics as Henri Lefebvre, Manuel Castells, Karsten Harries, and Christian Norberg-Schulz, Kolb seeks to move discussions about sprawl away from the idea that we must choose between being rooted in the local Black Forest soil or wandering in directionless space." By increasing our awareness of complexity and other issues, Kolb hopes to broaden and deepen people's thinking about the contemporary built environment and to encourage better designs in the future.</p></div> English. Sociology, Urban. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124233 Cities and towns. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026130 Cities https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002947 Sociologie urbaine. Villes. urban sociology. aat cities. aat SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Cities and towns fast Sociology, Urban fast has work: Sprawling places (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG4qrgVc4qY87D9VG7FFrq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Kolb, David. Sprawling places. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008 9780820329888 (DLC) 2007039038 (OCoLC)154704397 Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=310993 Volltext |
spellingShingle | Kolb, David Sprawling places / Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. Places today -- What is a place? -- Place complexity -- Commodification, systems, and places -- Full theme ahead -- Suburban promises and problems -- Toward more complexity in suburbia. Sociology, Urban. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124233 Cities and towns. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026130 Cities https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002947 Sociologie urbaine. Villes. urban sociology. aat cities. aat SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Cities and towns fast Sociology, Urban fast |
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topic | Sociology, Urban. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124233 Cities and towns. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026130 Cities https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002947 Sociologie urbaine. Villes. urban sociology. aat cities. aat SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Cities and towns fast Sociology, Urban fast |
topic_facet | Sociology, Urban. Cities and towns. Cities Sociologie urbaine. Villes. urban sociology. cities. SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban. PHILOSOPHY Social. Cities and towns Sociology, Urban |
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