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1. Becoming Places

   Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

   By Kim Dovey

   About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu...

   Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge
2. Framing Places

   Mediating Power in Built Form, 2nd Edition

   By Kim Dovey

   Series: Architext

   Framing Places is 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 examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
3. Fluid City

   Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

   By Kim Dovey

   Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay. As the financial and industrial centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance. Yet...

   Published December 1st 2004 by Routledge
4. Framing Places

   Mediating Power in Built Form

   By Kim Dovey

   Series: Architext

   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...

   Published January 7th 2002 by Routledge