The definitive guide to recreating the special look of Greene & Greene furniture. Considered among the highest achievements of the American arts and crafts movement, Greene & Greene furniture is famous for its refined details and striking design. The special beauty of Greene & Greene design has been impossible to reproduce because of the rarity of the original pieces. But now, in Greene & Gr…
This companion to Urban Design: Street and Square (1992) describes putting frosting on the city cake: enhancing the basic functional elements by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. Pivots around components such as the facade, the corner, skyline and roofscape, the city floor, landmarks, sculpture and furniture, and color…
Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments. Can making public spaces help overcome this fragmentation, where accessible spaces are cre…
First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the…