Structure and meaning in human settlements

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Structure and meaning in human settlements

Tony Atkin and Joseph Rykwert, editors

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2005]

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Structure & meaning in human settlements

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"Philadelphia and London, June 2005" -- acknowledgments (p. xi)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Building and knowing / Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin
  • Animal settlements : ecological functionalism of animal architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa
  • Settlement patterns in Americanist archaeology / Gordon R. Willey
  • The idea of a Maya town / Wendy Ashmore
  • Cosmological structures of ancient Egyptian city planning / David O'Connor
  • Mohenjo-Daro : the symbolic landscape of an ancient city / Gregory Possehl
  • Holy mountains / Joseph Rykwert
  • The ontological structure of mediance as a ground of meaning in architecture / Augustin Berque
  • Three gestures in a poetics of place : Chinese settlement and disruption / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • The language of cultural memory in Chinese gardens / Stanislaus Fung
  • A culture without a temple : ritual landscape sanctuaries and female superiority in state religion in Ryukyu / Tsutomu Iyori
  • Etruscan boundaries and prophecy / Larissa Bonfante
  • Razing the roof : the imperative of building destruction in Danhomè (Dahomey) / Suzanne P. Blier
  • Signs of the ancestors : an archaeology of Mesa villages of the Pueblo Revolt / T.J. Ferguson and Robert Preucel
  • Imagining the past / Edmund Carpenter
  • The oasis model / Pietro Laureano
  • The evolution of settlement : fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo 1995-97 / Tony Atkin
  • The primitive origins of modern architecture : Le Corbusier's Voyages to the East / M. Christine Boyer
  • Symbolic settlements : the American ideological tension between private homes and public housing / Lawrence J. Vale
  • Transplanting the New Jersey Turnpike to China / Thomas J. Campanella
  • Landscape ecology and cities / Laurie Olin
  • Settlements after now / Michael Sorkin
  • 21st century nomadism and settlement / Denis Cosgrove
  • Materials matter in urban architecture / David Leatherbarrow

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