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Cities and Cultures Malcolm Miles 9780415354431
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what... -
Art, Space and the City by Malcolm Miles
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $112.98Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban... -
Consuming Cities by Malcolm Miles 9780333977101
Booksplease Price: $91.90Contemporary urban consumption touches the everyday lives of most citizens and permeates discussion of society and culture today. Consuming Cities looks at this topic from perspectives in both... -
Cities and Literature Malcolm Miles 9781138219533
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines... -
New Practices - New Pedagogies: A Reader by Malcolm Miles
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.99With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. Influential and knowledgable... -
Art Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Social Transformation by Malcolm Miles
Booksplease Price: $56.11Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together... -
Herbert Marcuse: An Aesthetics of Liberation Malcolm Miles 9780745330389
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.53When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s... -
New Practices - New Pedagogies: A Reader by Malcolm Miles 9780415366182
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $176.57With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. Influential and knowledgable... -
Art Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Social Transformation by Malcolm Miles 9781350239975
Booksplease Price: $148.87Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together... -
Urban Avant-Gardes: Art, Architecture and Change Malcolm Miles 9780415266888
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $104.60Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts,... -
Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change by Malcolm Miles
Booksplease Price: $62.06By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and... -
Paradoxical Urbanism: Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism by Malcolm Miles 9789811563430
Booksplease Price: $95.13Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism... -
Limits to Culture: Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art by Malcolm Miles 9780745334349
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.15How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning... -
Limits to Culture: Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art by Malcolm Miles 9780745334356
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $146.03How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning... -
Paradoxical Urbanism: Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism by Malcolm Miles 9789811563409
Booksplease Price: $97.19Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism... -
Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change by Malcolm Miles 9781472529107
Booksplease Price: $216.53By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and... -
Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities Tim Hall 9780415266949
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not... -
The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City by Jonathan Charley 9780367517762
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary... -
I & I by George Elliott Clarke
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $28.90Shortlisted, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry and Dartmouth Book AwardIn the "Boogie Nights" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the... -
The City Cultures Reader by Iain Borden
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $114.66Cities 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... -
The Spatial Politics of the Sculptural: Art, Capitalism and the Urban Space by Euyoung Hong 9781783487608
Booksplease Price: $107.52Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture. Phenomenological thought interprets sculptural work in relation to the immersive experience of the viewer, situating it within its... -
Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder by Steve Pile 9780415200745
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $68.63The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the... -
Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism Jonathan Hughes 9780750640831
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $112.98Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and... -
Common Purse, Uncommon Future: The Long, Strange Trip of Communes and Other Intentional Communities by Joseph C. Manzella 9780313384622
Booksplease Price: $91.01This book documents the wide range of contemporary communes and other intentional communities providing sanctuaries for like-minded people to pursue cooperative alternatives to media-stoked... -
Radical Space: Building the House of the People by Margaret Kohn
Booksplease Price: $58.55Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of Tiananmen Square:. Until recently, however,...