HUM 3394: Representations of Place and Space

Part Three: Building Place

Theoretical Approaches to Place

• Place, Method, and Identity
• Preliminaries on Place and Theory
  
  
• Phenomenological & Hermeneutical Approaches to Place
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Gaston Bachalard
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Edward Casey
    
    
• Symbolic & Structural Approaches to Place
  • Michel de Certeau
    • Lord of the Rings
  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • Michel Foucault
    • "Of Other Spaces"
    • "Questions on Geography"
    • "The Eye of Power"
    • Bentham's Panopticon
    • The Auto-Icon of Jeremy Bentham
  • Marc Augé
    
    
• Social Constructivist & Marxian Approaches to Place
  • Henri Lefebvre
    • David Harvey on Lefebvre: A Grid of Spatial Practices
  • David Harvey
    • Examples of the social construction of space
  • Edward Soja
  • Space and Capital
    
    
• Psychological & Determinist Approaches to Place
  • Yi-Fu Tuan
  • Winifred Gallagher
  • Environmental Psychology

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Place/Space and Power

• "Man Arrested for Wearing Peace T-Shirt in a Mall" CNN March 6 2003
  • Fox News version of story
  • Socialist Worker version of story

Place/Space and Modernity

• Fragments of the Passagenwerk (Benjamin, Arcades Project)
• Modernity and the Flâneur
• The Flaneur

Place/Space, Planning and Architecture

• Sprawl and Planning (Dolores Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl)
  • Images of Sprawl from A Field Guide to Sprawl
  • Asphalt Nation
  • Clustered World
  • Greenfield Worries
  • Privatopia
    • Privatopia Blog
    • "The Myth of Privatopia"
  • Zoomburg
  • Bourgeois Dystopias
  • "Comprehensive Look at Sprawl in America"
  • "Rebutting Claims About Sprawl"
  • Planning Terms
    
    
• Modernism and Architecture
  • Bauhaus
    • Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design
    • Walter Gropius
      
      
  • Le Corbusier
    • Villa Savoye
    • Ronchamp
    • Carpenter Center, Harvard
      
      
  • Mies van der Rohe
    
    
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
    • Fallingwater
    • Guggenheim
      
      
  • Philip Johnson
    • Glass House
    • Seagram Building
      
      
• Postmodernism and Architecture
  • Robert Venturi
    • Ducks & Decorated Sheds 1
    • Ducks and Sprawl
    • Robert Venturi, "Disney Goes Pop"
      
      
  • Frederic Jameson
    • Jameson notes on Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
    • Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism excerpts, more excerpts
    • Jameson's passage on the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles
      • exterior of the hotel
      • interior of the hotel
        
        
  • Frank Gehry
    • Hollywood's Frances Howard Goldwyn Regional Branch Library.
    • Vontz Center for Molecular Studies.
    • Gehry's house.
    • Experience Music Project.
    • Venice Beach House.
    • Guggenheim Bilbao.
      
      
  • Charles Jencks
    • Charles Jencks Site.
    • Charles Jencks on Postmodern Architecture.
      
      
  • Diller + Scofidio
    • Dia Center webcam exhibit
    • Blur
      
      
  • Postmodernism and Architecture
    • Postmodern Commercial Architecture.
    • Postmodern Residential Architecture.
    • Detroit's Renaissance Center (Portman).
    • Edmonton Attractions.
    • Western Postmodern Architecture.
    • Pomo Architecture in Taipei.
    • Postmodernism and Urban Space.
    • Pompideiu Center
      
      
• Caws, Peter. "The Unconscious is Structured Like a City: Freud, Lacan, and the Project of the Human Sciences" http://www.janushead.org/gwu-2001/caws.cfm
• Vanderbilt, Tom. "On Place: It's a Mall World After All." Harvard Design Magazine 9 (Fall 1999). http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/9onplace_vanderbilt.html

Place and the Urban

• Craptowns
• Clone Town Britain
• Nicolas Hune-Brown, Suburbs: A Cliche from Hell