In what ways are Walter Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the movements that individuals can make within the new spaces of modern cities? This volume collects essays on time in cinema, the problem of kitsch, the design of graves and tombs, and more.
In what ways are Walter Benjamin's writings centrally caught up with architectural concerns, from the redevelopment of major urban centres to the move...
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.
Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analysing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John...
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transpo...
Like my first literary attempt, "The Joke's On Me," this book is primarily a collection of editorials and letters to the editor of the local newspaper along with running commentary and some attempted justification for the foolishness. The first book would not exist if it hadn't been for the insistence of several people that all this should be in a book. Most of the letters to the editor in this first section were written under the guise of the Greater Sycamore Valley Chamber of Commerce, an entity which exists only in the minds of its readers. Some of the letters were just personal...
Like my first literary attempt, "The Joke's On Me," this book is primarily a collection of editorials and letters to the editor of the local newspa...
