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Interior urbanism : architecture, John Portman and downtown America /
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A note on images
- PROLOGUE: THE ATRIUM EFFECT
- 1 TRANSFORMATIONS IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE
- 'What do these two pictures have in common?'
- Mapping postmodern hyperspace
- 2 THE BUSINESS OF ARCHITECTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
- 'A continually-evolving character without precise definition'
- 3 ATLANTA, NEW AMERICAN CITY
- Changing demographics and emerging alliances
- Central Atlanta Progress
- Investor prerogative
- Pedestrianism, but not as we know it.
- 4 THE GEOMETRY OF INTERIOR URBANISM
- Entelechy
- Peachtree Center
- Embarcadero Center
- Bonaventure Hotel
- Renaissance Center
- Consistency and proliferation
- 5 URBAN STUDIESON THE STREET
- Street life
- Architects and sociologists on the street
- Incorporating the street
- EPILOGUE: ON HOLLOW FORMS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.