By Jessica Joyce Christie,Jelena Bogdanovic,Eulogio Guzmán
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the old, political, and cultural narratives of capital towns comparable to Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a cautious visible research, hinging at the methodological instruments of not just architectural and concrete layout but in addition cultural, historiographical, and anthropological reports. the gathering presents additional how you can conceive of ways tactics of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals otherwise with out wasting grab of neighborhood targeted architectural and spatial good points. The essays additionally articulate the various complicated political and ideological agendas of a various set of sovereign entities that deliberate, built, displayed, and played their societal beliefs within the areas in their capitals, finally confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial.
Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Parmly Toxey, Alexei Vranich
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