Harold D. Lasswell

The Signature of Power (eBook, ePUB)

Buildings, Communications, and Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Advanced industrial societies are becoming aware of the impact of what they do to the physical and biological environment, and also what that environment does to individuals. In The Signature of Power, Harold D. Lasswell examines the symbolic use people make of their surroundings and the complexity of the way they interpret an altered environment. Transformed habitats can change experiences and behaviors. All people seek to maximize their preferred events, such as power and wealth, when they use the environment-be it through glass skyscrapers or Gothic estates. In all cases, physical structures give expression to the perspectives of influential individuals and groups.

This volume considers the complex interplay between the material and the symbolic. Physical changes introduced for political purposes by architects, planners, and engineers are guided by the perspectives of designers. These and other interactions in human society are simultaneous acts of communication and collaboration. Regardless of whether physical resources are used to transmit messages, such interactions nevertheless have a degree of communicative impact.

Physical structures may be profoundly affected by the purposes, assumptions, and identities of those people who plan or change them. Environmental design, says Lasswell, is an instrument of political power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351474184
• Artikelnr.: 49043208

Autorenporträt

Harold D. Lasswell

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart I Analysis1 The Military Arena: The Encircling and the
Encircled2 The Civil Arena and the Sharing of Power The Civil Arena:
Patterns of Interpenetration The Sharing of Power: The Vertical and the
Horizontal3 The Phases of Decision Dimensions of Decision: Differentiation
and Demarcation The Intelligence Phase (Informing): Gathering, Processing,
and Disseminating Knowledge The Promoting Phase: Mobilization of Support
The Prescribing Phase: Formulating Norms, Contingencies, and Sanctions The
Invoking Phase: Provisional Characterization of Particular Situations The
Applying Phase: Final Characterization of the Particular The Terminating
Phase: Cancelling and Compensating The Appraisal Phase: Reviews of
Performance and Impact4 The Phenomena of Spacing 5 The Earth as IconPart II
Exhibits 1.0 Silhouette Analysis 2.0 Decision Functions 3.0 Symbolizing
Identity 4.0 Modes and Sequences of Differentiation and Demarcation 5.0
Centralization and Decentralization 6.0 Equality/Inequality 7.0
ArenasIllustrations