City of play : an architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure /

City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords - play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez de Arce, Rodrigo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Temas:
Architecture and recreation.
Space (Architecture) > Psychological aspects.
Architecture et loisirs.
Espace (Architecture) > Aspect psychologique.
Theory of architecture.
History of architecture.
History.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
Architecture and recreation
Space (Architecture) > Psychological aspects
Freizeiteinrichtung
Architektur
Freizeit
Öffentlicher Raum
Spiel
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Elusive imprints
  • pt. ONE field
  • 1. whereabouts of play
  • Everywhere
  • Spheres of action
  • Field and stage
  • Canon
  • primeval
  • Field and square
  • Skin and precincts
  • 2. Formal and relational traits
  • Scale
  • Topology
  • Topography
  • Symmetry
  • Perspectival alignments
  • informal and the formless
  • 3. Material
  • lawn
  • Sand and snow
  • Water
  • 4. Locational attributes
  • Orientation
  • Adaptations
  • Clustering: couplings and mosaics
  • near formal
  • Site specific
  • 5. Park and amusement park
  • pt. TWO Players
  • 6. athlete
  • Introduction
  • Cells and arenas
  • Bucolic deportments
  • 7. child
  • Introduction
  • sky
  • street
  • Anywhere
  • Tumuli
  • Displacements
  • Ludic cores
  • Future imperfect
  • Stillness and the miniature
  • Statuary: action and the immobile
  • 8. Back to order
  • school
  • campus
  • 9. citizen
  • return of Homo Ludens
  • Paideia's revenge
  • Final Remarks.

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