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"This book approaches contemporary project development through a cultural and theoretical lens, and aims to demonstrate that designing spaces, interiors, and the urban habitat is an activity that has independent cultural foundations"--
"This book approaches contemporary project development through a cultural and theoretical lens, and aims to demonstrate that designing spaces, interiors, and the urban habitat is an activity that has independent cultural foundations"--
This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous sprea…
By mapping the city's native spaces of leisure & everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, & gender modernity of 19th century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China. This book argues that modernity first arrived in lat…
By mapping the city's native spaces of leisure & everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, & gender modernity of 19th century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China. This book argues that modernity first arrived in lat…
Augé explores the distinction between place, encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.
"Shopping malls, motorways, airport lounges - we are all familiar with these curious spaces which are both everywhere and nowhere. But only now do we have a coherent analysis of their far-reaching effects on public and private experience. Marc Auge has become their anthropologis…
Auge éxplores the distinction between place, encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.
Augé explores the distinction between place, encrusted with historical meaning and creative of social life, and non-place, to which individuals are connected in a uniform manner and where no organic social life is possible.