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The City Cultures Reader by Iain Borden
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.64Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on the culture of cities, The City Cultures Reader... -
Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History by Iain Borden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions - a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant,... -
Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories by Iain Borden
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to survey comprehensively this... -
Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Iain Borden
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous... -
The Dissertation: A Guide for Architecture Students Iain Borden 9780415725361
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic text provides a complete guide to what to do, how to do it, when to... -
Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body by Iain Borden 9781859734933
Booksplease Price: £36.82Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the... -
Forty Ways to Think About Architecture: Architectural History and Theory Today Iain Borden (The Barlett, UCL) 9781118822616
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.06How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and... -
Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento, Italy) 9781138257399
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging... -
Intersections of Space and Ethos by Kyriaki Tsoukala 9781138567368
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture. The intellectual production of... -
Text and Image: Art and the Performance of Memory by Richard Candida Smith
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, this book explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The contributions draw from art... -
Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding by Jonathan Harris 9781846316401
RRP: £65.50Booksplease Price: £62.54This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local and national governments attempting to brand their cities in contemporary regional... -
City A-Z: Urban Fragments by Steve Pile 9780415207287
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Specially comissioned short... -
Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City by Sabina Andron 9781032597515
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.47This book explores the ownersheir authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city.Includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface... -
Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality by Tim Edensor 9781845200770
Booksplease Price: £36.82Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes. Standing in contrast to these aesthetically and socially regulated spaces are the neglected sites of... -
Memories of Cities: Trips and Manifestoes by Jonathan Charley 9781138269989
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment. Drawing upon fiction and non-fiction, and... -
The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory by Greig Crysler 9781446282632
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.18"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource... -
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities by Christoph Lindner
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art and architecture to film and digital media -... -
Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China: Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture by Dr. Guanghui Ding
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were... -
Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City Konstantinos Avramidis 9781138600904
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning, often stylistically crude and... -
On South Bank: The Production of Public Space Alasdair J.H. Jones 9781138246218
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Tensions over the production of urban public space came to the fore in summer 2013 with mass protests in Turkey sparked by a plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul. In London, concomitant... -
NATO: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London Claire Jamieson 9781138674844
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century - NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) - who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book... -
Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice Akari Nakai Kidd (Deakin University, Australia) 9781032005652
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies,... -
Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future Belinda Wheaton (University of Waikato, New Zealand) 9781032128320
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to...