Following sheep's recent email, you may be interested in another just
published edited collection, with contributions from both within and
beyond the space syntax community:
Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and
Present. Edited by Sam Griffiths and Alex von Lünen, Routledge.
http://tinyurl.com/zay9msr
https://www.book2look.com/embed/9781317051541
*Back cover blurb*
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean?
Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and
Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which
themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment
research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological
boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse
that arises between research focussing on the description of material
built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people
who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance
to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly
efforts to understand the urban built environment as a meaningful agent of
human social experience. Drawing on a wide range of historical and
contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and
methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to
historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse
spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and
neighbourhood. The aim is to challenge their tacit treatment as universal
categories in much writing on cities and to propose alternative research
possibilities with implications as much for urban design thinking as for
history and the social sciences.
Best, Sam
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