Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance

This essay, “Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance,” explores how privacy became a public concern within the context of U.S. suburbanization during the 1950s. Suburban spaces and architecture represent changed notions of privacy, publicity, property and selfhood that correspond t...

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Main Author:	Bärbel Harju
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2017-06-01
Series:	e-cadernos ces
Subjects:	architecture postwar America privacy crisis suburbia surveillance
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/eces/2221

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spelling	doaj-9f034093f15540ed8e96c1aea912fe632020-11-25T01:01:32ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372017-06-012710.4000/eces.2221Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and SurveillanceBärbel HarjuThis essay, “Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance,” explores how privacy became a public concern within the context of U.S. suburbanization during the 1950s. Suburban spaces and architecture represent changed notions of privacy, publicity, property and selfhood that correspond to broader ideological and historical transformations. Techniques, functions, and forms of privacy in American suburbs are examined against the background of prevalent fears and sensibilities during the early phase of the Cold War, in order to analyze how privacy is imagined, staged, negotiated, instrumentalized and made visible in the cultural, social, and political context of suburbanization.http://journals.openedition.org/eces/2221architecturepostwar Americaprivacy crisissuburbiasurveillance
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title	Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance
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description	This essay, “Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance,” explores how privacy became a public concern within the context of U.S. suburbanization during the 1950s. Suburban spaces and architecture represent changed notions of privacy, publicity, property and selfhood that correspond to broader ideological and historical transformations. Techniques, functions, and forms of privacy in American suburbs are examined against the background of prevalent fears and sensibilities during the early phase of the Cold War, in order to analyze how privacy is imagined, staged, negotiated, instrumentalized and made visible in the cultural, social, and political context of suburbanization.
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Picture Windows: Architecture of Privacy and Surveillance

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