Friends, I’m sharing details of this new book that examines housing policy as played out in election campaign imagery. Case studies include Thatcher’s Right to Buy and George Bush’s Home Ownership Nation. Please share it and order a copy for your library. 
Thank you.

REIFICATION AND REPRESENTATION: ARCHITECTURE IN THE POLITICO-MEDIA-COMPLEX

Routledge   /   216 pages | 10 B/W Illus.   /     ISBN: 9781138927414
Author: Graham Cairns.     

To order a copy for your library:

https://www.routledge.com/Reification-and-Representation-Architecture-in-the-Politico-Media-Complex/Cairns/p/book/9781138927414

Outline:

Using case studies from the political campaigns of George W. Bush and Margaret Thatcher, amongst others, this book examines how housing and social policy have been played out through political imagery and architectural representation. Specifically, it examines the housing campaigns in and between the George W. Bush 2000-2004 Presidential elections in the US and the General Election campaigns and related housing polices of the early Thatcher governments in the UK.  
More generally, the book looks at urban planning and regeneration through the Trump campaign imagery of 2016 and the Blair Governments of 1997-2010. It also examines the historical cultural context for the appropriation of architectural imagery by Barack Obama in 2008, David Cameron in 2010 and the Brexit campaign in 2016.  
Arguing for a fundamental reconfiguration of our understanding of the ‘political’ in fields related to architecture and urban planning this book suggests the relationship between the political and the built environment is not only evident in constructed buildings or policy, but is equally evident in the mediated imagery of election campaigning. It will be essential reading for scholars in housing policy, architectural theory, political communication, sociology and media studies.

https://www.routledge.com/Reification-and-Representation-Architecture-in-the-Politico-Media-Complex/Cairns/p/book/9781138927414

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