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Places Made After Their Stories: Design and the art of choreotopography
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Places Made After Their Stories: Design and the art of choreotopography
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Paul Carter
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:200 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781742587608
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Classifications | Dewey:711 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | General | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
UWA Publishing
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Imprint |
UWAP
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Publication Date |
1 November 2015 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
How is emotional meaning found in places? How can creating new urban spaces be a vehicle for less adversarial forms of political coexistence, new customs of social innovation? Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside us and the ecstatic desire at the heart of democratic community-making can come together to inform contemporary landscape and urban design. Using case studies of public space design from Alice Springs to Perth and Melbourne, in which the author forged for himself the novel role of designer-dramaturg, Carter describes a new approach to place-making in which topography and choreography fuse.
Author Biography
Paul Carter is a highly acclaimed writer, artist and interdisciplinary scholar. His book The Road to Botany Bay and his artwork Nearamnew (at Federation Square, Melbourne) are particularly well-known. He is Creative Director of the design studio Material Thinking (established 2007), and Professor of Design (Urbanism) in the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University.
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