Books, Buildings and Social Engineering
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A01=Alistair Black
A01=Kaye Bagshaw
A01=Simon Pepper
adaptive reuse of public libraries
architectural heritage management
Author_Alistair Black
Author_Kaye Bagshaw
Author_Simon Pepper
Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie UK Trust
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
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Children's Library
Children’s Library
civic building preservation
Early Public Library
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Henry Hare
historic urban infrastructure
library architecture history
Library Buildings
library user access models
Liverpool Public Library
Manchester Central Library
Manchester Central Reference Library
Open Access Libraries
Open Access System
Picton Reading Room
public
Public Library
Public Library Buildings
Public Library Design
Public Library Development
Reading Room
Round Reading Room
Simon Pepper
socio-architectural analysis
Stanley Jast
Town Hall
Town Hall Extension
Walker Art Gallery
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815399285
- Weight: 900g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.
Alistair Black is Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Simon Pepper is Professor of Architecture, Liverpool University, UK and Kaye Bagshaw is the Research Officer for the AHRB-funded project 'Early public libraries in Britain' at Liverpool University.
