Architecture and justice : judicial meanings in the public realm / edited by Jonathan Simon, Nicholas Temple, Renee Tobe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simon, Jonathan, 1959- editor.

Temple, Nicholas, editor.

Tobe, Renée, editor.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public architecture.

Architecture and state.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of, and the individuals subject to, justice. With its multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on which to debate the r

Contents:

Prisons and prison cells. Penal aesthetics and the pains of imprisonment / 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 / 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

Politike Arete: 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Simon, Jonathan Architecture and Justice

ISBN:

9781409471257

140947125X

9781315567655

1315567652

9781317179375

1317179374

9781409431749

1409431746

9781299141568

1299141560

OCLC:

827206952