Description: Further DetailsTitle: Paradoxes of GreenCondition: NewSubtitle: Landscapes of a City-StateISBN-10: 0520285018EAN: 9780520285019ISBN: 9780520285019Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/07/2017Description: This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives-aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social-in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert. Although green is often celebrated in cities as a counter to gray urban environments, green has not always been good for cities. Similarly, manifestation of the color green in arid urban environments is often in direct conflict with the practice of green from an environmental point of view. This paradox is at the heart of the book. In arid environments such as Bahrain, the contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain, where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and exists in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues.Explicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmAuthor: Gareth DohertyGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Architecture & AntiquesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Paradoxes of Green
Title: Paradoxes of Green
Subtitle: Landscapes of a City-State
ISBN-10: 0520285018
EAN: 9780520285019
ISBN: 9780520285019
Release Date: 02/07/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Paradoxes of Green : Landscapes of a City-State
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Landscape, Sustainability & Green Design, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Regional, Color Theory, Public Policy / Regional Planning, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Political Science, Architecture, Social Science
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Author: Gareth Doherty
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
