Political landscapes of capital cities

"Investigates the transformation of landscapes into culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group uses a methodology to expose the associations between human-mad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Christie, Jessica Joyce, 1956- editor (editor), Bogdanović, Jelena, 1973- editor, Guzmán, Eulogio, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado 2016.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44551393*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović
  • Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas
  • The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović
  • Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari
  • Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich
  • The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán
  • Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey
  • La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat
  • Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor
  • Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.