Stone: Stories of Urban Materiality

By Tim Edensor

Book Overview

Cliff.- Chapter 1: Thinking about Urban Materiality.- Tomb.- Chapter 2: Stony Flows.- Quartz.- Chapter 3: Stony Entanglements: Quarrying, Demolition, Disposal and Remediation.- Foundation.- Chapter 4: The Maintenance and Repair of Stone Assemblages.- Tree.- Chapter 5: Remembering with Stone.- Grotto.- Chapter 6: Sensing Place: Living with Melbourne's Stone.- Garden.- Chapter 7: Becoming Attuned to Stone: Skill, Craft, Making.- Temple.- Chapter 8: The Ghosts of Urban Stone.- Scholar Stone.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811546495
• ISBN13: 9789811546495
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"