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1. Japanese Love Hotels

   A Cultural History

   By Sarah Chaplin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
2. Curating Architecture and the City

   Edited by Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara

   Series: Critiques

   Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Striking&...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge