Alsayyad, Nezar <br/><br/>
Traditions: the real, the hyer, and the virtual in the built environment 

 - 1st Ed 
 - New York  Routledge  2014 
 - xi, 236 Pages  | Binding - Paperback | 
<br/><br/> Traditions: The ‘Real’, the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment is a continuation of Nezar AlSayyad’s engagement with the subject of tradition in the built environment. In it he attempts to unsettle the belief that tradition is simply a product of history and transmission. Without dismissing the parallels between history and tradition, he argues that normative discourses which conceive of tradition as a place-based, temporally situated concept, as a static authoritative legacy of a past, and as a heritage owned by certain groups of people can no longer be sustained in the present moment of globalization. Instead he calls for an approach that recognizes how the main qualities of tradition are transient, fleeting, and contingent. While using the built environment 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0-415-77773-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT (AR-ENV)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>THEFORMOFDWELLINGS; PROBLEMATIZINGTRADITIONINTHEBUILTENVIRONMENT; CONCEPTUALIZINGTRADITIONADNMODERNITY 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.47  / ALS