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Traditions
ISBN/GTIN

Traditions

The 'Real', the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment
BookPaperback
Ranking125916inKunst
CHF95.90

Description

This book is an investigation into the stubborn endurance of tradition in the modern world.
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Details

ISBN/GTIN978-0-415-77773-5
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date17/03/2014
Pages236 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 155 mm, Height 231 mm, Thickness 13 mm
Weight417 g
Article no.16888529
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.20741660
Product groupKunst
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Author

Nezar AlSayyad, architect, urban historian, and public intellectual, is a Professor of Architecture and Planning and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author and editor of many books including Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition (1989); Cities and Caliphs (1991); Forms and Dominance (1992); Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage (2001); Hybrid Urbanism (2001); The End of Tradition? (2004); Making Cairo Medieval (2005); Cinematic Urbanism (2006); The Fundamentalist City? (2010); and Cairo: Histories of a City (2011). In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) of which he is President, and served as Editor of its journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR).