Architecture and justice judicial meanings in the public realm / edited by Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley, USA, Nicholas Temple, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Renée Tobe, University of East London, UK.

Other author Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
Other author Temple, Nicholas.
Other author Tobe, Renée.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBurlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Descriptionxxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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SeriesAshgate studies in architecture
Contents Prisons and prison cells. The aesthetics and anaesthetics of prison architecture / Yvonne Jewkes -- Architecture and contested space in the development of the modern prison / Helen Johnston -- A simple idea in architecture: on the principles of projecting prisons / Gabriela Świtek -- The watchman in the vineyard: historical traces of judicial and punitive practices in Lincoln / Nicholas Temple -- Courthouses and courtrooms. Back to the future? the challenge of the past for courthouses of tomorrow / Linda Mulcahy -- Lecture theatre: echoes of the Palais de Justice in legal education / Keith Crawford -- Virtual courts and putting 'summary' back into 'summary justice' / Emma Rowden -- Constitution Hill: just space or space of justice? / Zarina Patel and Clinton David van der Merwe -- The architecture and operation of the Imperial Chinese yamen / Peter Blundell Jones -- Civic and societal order. Violent stone: the city of dialectical justice--three tales from court / Jonathan Charley -- The spatial registers of justice / Richard Patterson -- Gimme shelter: mass incarceration and the criminology of the housing boom / Jonathan Simon -- Drawing conclusions: Fort Rupert, British Columbia in 1863 / John Bass -- Repurposing with a vengeance: a dance of restrained acts towards justice / Catherine Hamel -- Philosophical questions of propriety. Architecture, justice, conflict, measure / Peter Carl -- Politikē Aretē: or the origins of civic justice / Renée Tobe -- Ensemble performances: architects and justice in Athenian drama / Lisa Landrum -- The architecture of Lincoln Cathedral and the institution of justice / John Hendrix -- Politics and architecture / Raymond Geuss.
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LCCN 2012034190
ISBN9781409431732 (hardback : alk. paper)

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