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Book Review: Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity

Thursday, July 15, 2010

André Jansson and Amanda Lagerkvist (eds.) 2009. Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7461-0.
Reviewed by Peter Lugosi, School of Services Management, Bournemouth University (UK)
Jansson and Lagerkvist’s edited collection explores the processes through which spaces become uncertain, opaque…strange.  At times these uncertainties emerge as negativities – fear, loss, [...]

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Book Review: House Form and Culture

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Amos Rapoport. 1969. House Form and Culture (Foundations of Cultural Geography Series). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 150 pp. ISBN: 978-0133956733.
Reviewed by J.A. Adedeji, Department of Architecture, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Nigeria) and S.A. Amole, Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria)
The book “House Form and Culture” was originally written in 1969 by [...]

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Book Review: Essays on Boredom and Modernity

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani (eds.) 2009. Essays on Boredom and Modernity. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodolpi. 227 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-2566-0.
Reviewed by Julian Jason Haladyn, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Part of the Critical Studies series at Rodolpi, Essays on Boredom and Modernity examines “the phenomenon of boredom from a multidisciplinary perspective,” as Barbara Dalle Pezze [...]

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Book Review: L’Image de la ville

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Leenaerts, D. 2009. L’Image de la ville. Bruxelles et ses photographes des années 1850 à nos jours. Bruxelles: Collection Lieux de Mémoire, CFC-Éditions, 182 pages, ISBN:978-2-930018-79-9
Reviewed by Philippe Campays, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
Space and Culture readers will find an interesting contribution to knowledge in social geography in Danielle Leenaerts’ L’Image de La [...]

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Book Review: Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments

Monday, April 12, 2010

Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments. David Gissen (2009). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 224 pages. ISBN: 978-1-56898-777-4
Reviewed by Emily Snyder, University of Alberta (Canada)
I am trying to better understand discomfort and disgust – what they reveal, what they conceal. This anxious interest compelled me to read David Gissen’s book on ‘subnatures.’ His unique engagement with things [...]

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