Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807640803321
• Autore: Waterhouse Alan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993; ©1993
• ISBN: 1-4426-5616-6; 1-4426-2358-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Collana: Heritage
• Disciplina: 720.94
• Soggetti: City planning - Europe - History; Architecture - Europe - History; Urbanization - Europe - History; History; Electronic books.; Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliohraphical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.; 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.