William Taylor (ed.)

The Geography of Law

Landscape, Identity and Regulation
Herausgeber: Taylor, William; Hunter, Rosemary; Nelken, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. These essays examine the manner in which imaginative frameworks forming an environment for human action are objectified through practices aimed at governing relations between people or conversely, the way in which legal codes and statutes rely upon there being a relationship between individuals and their surroundings. The Geography of Law brings together research from a range of disciplines to question how urban spaces, works of architecture and landscape, and representations of socio-legal ideas in texts, city plans, and paintings, engage with the construction of identity, character, and values, both historically and the present day. Essayists question the usefulness of space and regulation as categories of critical analysis, scrutinize familiar uses of these cate

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781841135564
• ISBN-10: 1841135569
• Artikelnr.: 22714179

Autorenporträt

William Taylor teaches architectural design, history and theory in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Visual Arts at The University of Western Australia, Perth.