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Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017)

Ronald Rael
Borderwall as Architecture
A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
University of California Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society November 16, 2018 David-James Gonzales

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project in twenty-first century America. The result? Approximately 700 miles of fencing, barricades, and walls comprised of newly built and repurposed materials, strategically placed along the 1,954-mile... Read More

Pamela Woolner, ed., “School Design Together” (Routledge, 2014)

Pamela Woolner
School Design Together

Routledge, 2014

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Education New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychology New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network October 29, 2018 Julie Kallio

Pamela Woolner, senior lecturer in education at Newcastle University, joins us in this episode to discuss her edited volume, School Design Together (Routledge, 2014). Pam is an expert in understanding and developing learning environments, particularly the use of participatory research methods to engage and empower users to share their experiences... Read More

Laura Neitzel
The Life We Longed for
Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan
MerwinAsia, 2016

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network August 30, 2018 Nathan Hopson

Laura Neitzel’s The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan (MerwinAsia, 2016) is a chronicle of the large, government-sponsored housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan’s high-growth years, roughly 1955 until the first oil shock in the early 1970s. Though only a... Read More

Richard S. Hopkins, “Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris” (LSU Press, 2015)

Richard S. Hopkins
Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris

Louisiana State University Press, 2015

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network August 22, 2018 Beth Mauldin

Beginning in the mid-1800s, Paris experienced an unprecedented growth in the development of parks, squares, and gardens. This greenspace was part of Napoleon III’s plan for a new, modern Paris and a France restored to glory on the international stage. Adolphe Alphand, as director of the newly established park service, brought... Read More

Ross King
Seoul
Memory, Reinvention and the Korean Wave
University of Hawaii Press, 2018

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 14, 2018 Ed Pullford

Seoul, as any listener who has visited will recognize, can be a pretty overwhelming place. This is well recognized by Ross King, Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, who notes that cities like this “are experienced as disaggregated places, always already... Read More