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Boundaries of the City : The Architecture of Western Urbanism
In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building.€ Electronic Format Disclaimer: Image 6.5 removed at the request of the rights holder.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: Elements of the Boundary Idea -- 1 Expressive Meanings, Ancient and Modern -- The Source of Urban Boundaries -- Poetry and Construction -- Urbanism and Dialectics -- The Primary Structures of Urbanism -- Imagining Unity: Connecting to History the Dissolution of Space -- Expressive Meaning and the Arrangement of Urban Space -- 2 The Narrative of Boundary Architecture -- The Dialectical Archetype -- Archetypal Form and Archetypal Content -- Architecture and Recurrence -- Architectural Narrative -- Architectural Discourse and Expressive Meaning -- Foreground Moves to Background -- 3 Self-Interest and Reciprocity -- The Urbanism of Self-Interest -- The Mechanical City -- The Methodological Inversion -- Family Contradictions -- PART TWO: Urban Boundaries in Practice -- 4 Cities in a God-Filled Landscape -- The Crucible of Deconstruction -- Hellenistic Functionalism -- Permeable Boundaries -- The Conquest of the Site -- Classical Absences -- Hestia and the Black Hunter -- 5 Dividing the Urban Realm -- The Intransigence of Nero -- Illumination and Disaggregation -- Imperial Rome: The Porous City -- Crafted Towns -- Anti-Theoretical Townscapes -- The Fall of Roman Urbanism -- 6 Intensity, Insularity, and Communitas -- Cities of the Mind -- The Cloister -- Competing Boundaries -- The Armature of Florence -- Siena: Urbanism versus the Feuding Household -- The Hearth and the Seam -- Transforming the Thresholds -- Opening the Boundaries -- 7 The Subversion of Everyday Life -- The Land Question in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture -- The New Suburban Boundary Architecture -- Borromini's 'Corrosive Light' -- Lorenzetti Reborn -- Constructing the Proprietary Boundaries -- From Poche to Pavilion: French Urban and Suburban Space -- Positivism and the Neoclassical Paradigm. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 8 Urban Boundaries in Turmoil -- Berlin: The Courtyard and the Street -- The Formative Years -- Mobilizing the City: Mobs and Reformers -- The Landscape of Officialdom -- Urban Space Turns Fluid -- 9 The Dissolving Boundaries of Modernism -- Industry, Boundaries, and Architectural Ideology -- German Industry and Architecture -- The Advent of Industrial Science and Scientific Management -- Architecture and Industry in Berlin before the Fagus-Werk -- AEG in the Inner City -- Carl Benscheidt: Self-Interest in the Suburbs -- Benscheidt and Gropius: The Incubus Meets Proteus -- Words, Weight, and New Boundaries -- Urbanism and Industrial Power -- 10 Retreat from a Magic Landscape -- Empty Boundary Zones -- The Unsettlers -- The Family as Metropolitan Hero -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. | |
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