Books in the Architext series

Provides a review of the area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, this work addresses the strategies that have emerged in the practice of identifying and developing heritage sites.

Provides a review of the area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, this work addresses the strategies that have emerged in the practice of identifying and developing heritage sites.

This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.

Presents an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this volume shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities.

Draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalisation and develop new ones.

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system.

Treated from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book both addresses and challenges issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.

Draws on the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved - both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, this title explores the discursive tensions between the various different scales and dimensions of such 'empire-building' practices and constructions.

Presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. This book contains several essays that explore visual representations of urbanism reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. It is suitable for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world.

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world.

Focuses on Italian colonialism in the context of other European colonial systems, and explores Italian attitudes to other cultures, examining how this attitude of expansionism is reflected in the physical and ideological environment.