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Placemaking : production of built environment in two cultures / David Stea, Mete Turan ; with a foreword by Anthony King

By:

Stea, David

Contributor(s):

Turan, Mete, , 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ethnoscapes ; ; v. 8 | San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--AuthorPublication details: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury , c1993.Description: xv, 382 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781856284608

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.9 STE

LOC classification:

GF51 .E87 vol. 8 E99.P9

Contents:

Introduction: a critical overview; Breaking ground for placemaking; Sheltering landscapes and vicarious housing; From shelter to settlement; Urbanization in the Neolithic; Cliff hangers and troglodytes; Beyond impressions: structuring an explanation; Understanding placemaking: the Anatolians and the Anasazi; Reconstruction: toward new foundations; Anasazi abandonments and the "mesoamerican connection"; Transitions in modes of production: alternative models of social change.

Summary: This comparative study, a product of more than a decade of work, approaches the prehistoric and vernacular architecture of two widely separated peoples in an entirely new way. The ancient Anasazi of the present American southwest and the "Rock Dwellers" of Cappadocia in Anatolian Turkey evolved solutions to problems of dwelling in geologically identical environments, solutions alike in certain ways and decidedly different in others. This book traces the development of settlements in these two locations, allowing environmental and cultural determinisms to be weighed against each other and against alternative explanations, including classical dialectical materialism and sequence hierarchies. Placemaking is about the context of built form: the production of architecture and settlement. These are analysed in terms of the social forces that have given rise to physical artifacts, rather than the artifacts themselves. Much has been written about monuments, sacred architecture (churches, kivas), ritual and symbolic meaning in these two regions, and much less about the generative forces and purposes of ordinary building activity. This book, an attempt to "right the balance", also builds upon the results of this comparative case study to produce a general framework for interpretation.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	720.9 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		064568

David Stea is a San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) author.

Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-362) and index.

This comparative study, a product of more than a decade of work, approaches the prehistoric and vernacular architecture of two widely separated peoples in an entirely new way. The ancient Anasazi of the present American southwest and the "Rock Dwellers" of Cappadocia in Anatolian Turkey evolved solutions to problems of dwelling in geologically identical environments, solutions alike in certain ways and decidedly different in others. This book traces the development of settlements in these two locations, allowing environmental and cultural determinisms to be weighed against each other and against alternative explanations, including classical dialectical materialism and sequence hierarchies. Placemaking is about the context of built form: the production of architecture and settlement. These are analysed in terms of the social forces that have given rise to physical artifacts, rather than the artifacts themselves. Much has been written about monuments, sacred architecture (churches, kivas), ritual and symbolic meaning in these two regions, and much less about the generative forces and purposes of ordinary building activity. This book, an attempt to "right the balance", also builds upon the results of this comparative case study to produce a general framework for interpretation.

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