Textbook Discounter: Architecture: Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades

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Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades
	Author: Keller Easterling Publisher: The MIT Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$13.95~~ Buy New: $8.78 You Save: $5.17 (37%) New (20) Used (8) from $8.78 Sales Rank: 142656 Media: Paperback Pages: 208 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2 Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.6 x 0.6 ISBN: 0262550652 Dewey Decimal Number: 720.103 EAN: 9780262550659 ASIN: 0262550652 Publication Date: October 31, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: INTERNATIONL SHIPPING!!! SHIPS from 5 locations based on your Zip Code and availability! (PA TN IN OR SC) - Gift Quality - Orders Processed Immediately! - We get your book to you Very Quickly!


Editorial Reviews: Product Description In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"?resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions, in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces?familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade?aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, she writes, "move around the world like weather fronts"; Easterling focuses not on their blending?their global connectivity?but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue. Enduring Innocence resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.