Cultures and Settlements: Advances in Art and Urban Futures Volume 3 (Intellect Books - Play Text)

This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation. Taking the position that a culture signifies a way of life, it asks how cultural frameworks inform patterns of settlement, and how the built environment, as process and design, conditions cultural production and reception. The disciplinary fields this intersects include architecture, urban design, sociology, cultural and human geography, cultural studies and critical theory. Contributors work in a range of such fields, in Europe and Latin America. Culture And Policy -- Cultural Planning In East London / Graeme Evans -- Culture And Commerce -- European Culture Cities And Civic Distraction / Judith Kapferer -- Low-income Housing And Community Participation In N E Brazil / Denise Morado Nascimento -- Birmingham As A Cultural City / Tim Hall -- Place Identity -- A New Script For The Lake District / Paul Usherwood -- Candy Coated Chronotope -- Spatial Representations Of A Seaside Resort / Nicola Kirkham -- Consumption And The Post-industrial City -- Nike Town / Friedrich Von Bories -- University Campus As Ghost City / Habil Jan Hartman -- Cultural Practices -- Border As Dialectic/alison Marchant / Judith Rugg -- Icy Prospects / Liz Wells -- Puppet Theatre & Child Rights / Cariad Astles -- Lisbon Capital Of Nothing / Mario Caeiro -- Southall Project / Helen Mackeith -- The Gift Of Water / Jackie Brookner. Edited By Malcolm Miles And Nicola Kirkham. Ebrary Copy Has Series Statement: Advances In Art And Urban Futures ; V. 3. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 171-179) "In 1966, Slovenia's borders were opened to Western Europe. In 1991 she achieved independence from former Yugoslavia, but since 1992 she has been the recipient of refugees from the Bosnian war." "Dragica Potocnjak's play deals symbolically with the attitude of the European Union towards refugees, and specifically with issues of prejudice between two small nations with different religions, in the immediate context of a power relationship between a Slovenian and a Bosnian woman." "This translation into English is the first of the work of a female Slovene playwright. Its publication, including an introductory essay by Lesley Wade, will contribute to an understanding of the relationship between the personal and the political, and provide insights into sources of prejudice which inhabit our own lives."--Jacket The theme of this collection, originated by the City Cultures Research Unit at the University of Plymouth, is the mutual relation between cultures and patterns of settlement.