Discrimination by Design: a Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment The photos in this listing are of the item offered for sale.
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1992
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press [1992]. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0252018494 . First edition. This copy has been inscribed, signed ["Leslie"] and dated in the year of issue ["6-10-92"] by the author on the front free endpaper. 190 pages, illustrated, index. Fine copy in otherwise Fine Dust Wrapper with creasing to the front flap clphE.
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- Title
- Discrimination by Design: a Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment The photos in this listing are of the item offered for sale.
- Author
- Weisman, Leslie Kanes [Dust Wrapper illustration by Midtwon Manhattan, photo by Nina Prantis, author photo by Janet T. Swanson]
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press, Urbana
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252018494
- ISBN 13
- 9780252018497
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE / Decorating
In presenting feminist themes from a spatial perspective, Weisman raises many new and important questions. When do women feel unsafe in cities, and why? Why do so many homeless people prefer to sleep on the streets rather than in city-run shelters? Why does the current housing crisis pose a greater threat to women than to men? How would dwellings, communities, and public buildings look if they were designed to foster relationships of equality and environmental wholeness? And how can we begin to imagine such a radically different landscape?
In exploring the answers, the author introduces us to the people, policies, architectural innovations, and ideologies working today to shape a future in which all people matter. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Discrimination by Design is an invaluable and pioneering contribution to our understanding of the issues of our time--health care for the elderly and people with AIDS, homelessness, racial justice, changing conditions of work and family life, affordable housing, militarism, energy conservation, and the preservation of the environment. This thoroughly readable book provides practical guidance to policymakers, architects, planners, and housing activists. It should be read by all who are interested in understanding how the built environment shapes the experiences of their daily lives and the cultural assumptions in which they are immersed.
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