ABSTRACT

Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities we inhabit. Kim Dovey contends that the nature of architecture and urban design, their silent framings of everyday life, lend them to practices of coercion, seduction and authorization. The book draws from a broad range of social theories and deploys three primary analyses of built form, namely the analysis of spatial structure, the interpretation of constructed meanings and the interpretation of lived experience. These approaches to programme text and place, are woven together through a series of narratives on specific cities (Berlin, Beijing and Canberra and Melbourne) and building types (this corporate tower, shopping mall and domestic house).

chapter |6 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

PART I: FRAMES OF THEORIZATION

chapter 1|8 pages

POWER 9

chapter 2|12 pages

Program

chapter 3|10 pages

Text

chapter 4|14 pages

Place

part |2 pages

PART II: CENTRES OF POWER

chapter 5|16 pages

Take your breath away

chapter 6|16 pages

Hidden power

chapter 7|18 pages

Traces of democracy

part |2 pages

PART III: GLOBAL TYPES

chapter 8|16 pages

Tall storeys

chapter 9|16 pages

Inverted city

chapter 10|16 pages

Domestic dreaming

part |2 pages

PART IV: LOCALITIES

chapter 11|14 pages

ON THE MOVE 157

chapter 12|10 pages

Rust and irony

chapter |2 pages

Afterword

chapter 13|12 pages

Liberty and complicity