Structure and meaning in human settlements

Author(s)

• Atkin, Tony
• Rykwert, Joseph

Bibliographic Information

Structure and meaning in human settlements

Tony Atkin and Joseph Rykwert, editors

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

Other Title

Structure & meaning in human settlements

Note

"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

• NCID: BA74903815
• ISBN:
  • 1931707839
• LCCN: 2005017756
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 371 p.
• Size: 32 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GF101
  • DC22 : 307.1/4
  • NDLC : G93
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human settlements
  • LCSH : Human ecology
  • LCSH : Architecture, Domestic
  • LCSH : Space (Architecture)