From place to site: Negotiating narrative complexity

Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 39-58

  Beauregard, Robert A ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203997963     Document Type: Chapter

References (42)

1. On the meaning attached to place (and space), see Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
2. Carol J. Burns, "On Site: Architectural Preoccupations," in Drawing/Building/Text, ed. Andrea Kahn (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991), 149.
3. Marc Auge, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London: Verso, 1995), 51-56.
4. On the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site see Paul Goldberger, "Groundwork: How the Future of Ground Zero Is Being Resolved," The New Yorker 78, 12 (May 20, 2002): 86-95;
5. Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, eds., After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (New York: Routledge, 2002).
6. On the history of the World Trade Center, see Eric Darton, Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
7. On these points, see Samuel Weber, Institutions and Interpretation (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 18-32.
8. For a rich and evocative exploration of the relations between social meanings and urban design, see Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
9. See Margaret Farmer, "Toward a Decent Home...For Every American Family," Architectural Record 146 (1969): 131-134.
10. For a contrary view of the home-building industry, see Tom Schlesinger and Mark Erlich, "Housing: The Industry Capitalism Didn't Forget," in Critical Perspectives in Housing, eds. Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Ann Meyerson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 139-163.
11. The precursors to mass-produced hous- ing were the mail-order houses of the early twentieth century sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co., among others. See Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia:Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003), 97-127.
12. The more contemporary version of this housing is manufactured housing. See Andy Leon Horner, "Putting the Pieces Together," The Washington Post (March 19, 1987): 19.
13. See Robertson Ward, Jr., "Breakthrough?," AIA Journal 55 (1971): 17-22;
14. "Winners Assembled for Breakthrough," Business Week 2113 (1970): 35;
15. Marguerite Villelo and John Morris Dixon, "Breakthrough?," The Architectural Forum 132 (1970): 50-61.
16. Villelo and Dixon, "Breakthrough?"
17. Schlesinger and Erlich, "Housing: The Industry Capitalism Didn't Forget," 144.
18. Schlesinger and Erlich, "Housing; The Industry Capitalism Didn't Forget," 145.
19. Don Raney and Suzanne Stephens, "Operation Breakthrough: Operation P/R," Progressive Architecture 51 (1970): 120.
20. See Andrea Kahn, "Overlooking: A Look at How We Look at Site or...Site as Discrete Object of Desire," in Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary, ed. Duncan McCorquodale, Katerina Ruedi, and Sarah Wigglesworth (London: Black Dog Publisher, 1996), 174-185.
21. Norma Evenson, "The Symbolism of Brasilia," Landscape 18 (1969): 19.
22. For general background on the planning, design, and construction of Brasilia, see David G. Epstein, Brasilia, Plan and Reality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973);
23. Norma Evenson, Two Brazilian Capitals:Architecture and Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973);
24. James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989);
25. James Scott, Seeing Like a State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 117-130;
26. Willy Staubli, Brasilia (London: Leonard Hill Books, 1966);
27. Lawrence J. Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity (New Haven:Yale University Press, 1992), 15-27. This was not the first planned city in Brazil; that was Belo Horizonte, inaugurated in 1896.
28. E. Bradford Burns, A History of Brazil (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)(3rd edition), 420.
29. These three phrases are from Holston, The Modernist City, 14;
30. David E. Snyder, "Alternate Perspectives on Brasilia," Economic Geography 40 (1964):35;
31. Staubli, Brasilia, 10, respectively.
32. Holston, The Modernist City, 3.
33. Quoted in Scott, Seeing Like a State, 118.
34. Evenson, Two Brasilian Capitals, 104.
35. "Brasilia," in Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago: William Benton, Publisher, 1993), 108.
36. Staubli, Brasilia, 12.
37. Burns, A History of Brasil, 403.
38. Snyder, "Alternative Perspectives on Brasilia," 35.
39. Epstein, Brasilia, Plan and Reality, 28-30.
40. Quoted in Holston, The Modernist City, 84.
41. Epstein, Brasilia, Plan and Reality, 52.
42. Auge, Non-Places, 108.