The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History

by Dolores Hayden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262581523
• ISBN13: 9780262581523
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher