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urban landscapes as public history

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An edition of The Power of Place (1995)

The power of place

urban landscapes as public history

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Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.

In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.

The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artist's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latino, and Asian American families have experienced it.

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
296

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The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
February 7, 1997, The MIT Press
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Cover of: The power of place
The power of place: urban landscapes as public history
1995, MIT Press
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Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History
1995, MIT Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-286) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
304.2
Library of Congress
F869.L857 H39 1995, F869.L857 H39 1997, F869.L857H39 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 296 p. :
Number of pages
296

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1098697M
ISBN 10
0262082373
LCCN
94023424
OCLC/WorldCat
31077172
Library Thing
304
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9780262082372
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1319387

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