This study deals with the nexus of issues surrounding identity, power and place. It is a welcome sequel and complementary volume to Kim Dovey's seminal text, "Framing Places". It provides an intellectual framework for the critique of design projects at both urban and architectural scale for professional designers and policy makers in all these fields. The discussion critically examines claims for an architecture and urbanism of emancipation and successfully bridges theory and practice, with international case studies and theory sections.
