03487nam0 22003853i 450 VAN019516520210803041018.719978-13-500-3216-3paperback978-13-500-3217-0hardbackN9781350032187online20210803d2018 |0itac50 baengGB|||| |||||City of playan architectural and urban history of recreation and leisureRodrigo Pérez de ArceLondon [etc.]Bloomsbury Visual Arts2018XVII, 275 p.ill.24 cmCity 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 playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Pérez de Arce’s erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground – from the hippodrome to the Situationist city – of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play. Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect’s concerns with those of non-architects – and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone – architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike – a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities.VAN0195166City of play : an architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure1852952Edifici per attività ricreative [e] Spazi esterni [per] Attività ricreativeProgettazioneCasiStoriaVANC036408ARGBLondonVANL000015725.8Edifici per gli spettacoli. Edifici per lo sport18711.55822Pérez de ArceRodrigoVANV172276826795BloomsburyeditoreVANV144572Bloomsbury AcademicBloomsbury <editore>VANV146605Bloomsbury Visual ArtsBloomsbury <editore>VANV146611ITSOL20230616RICAhttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/city-of-play-an-architectural-and-urban-history-of-recreation-and-leisure/E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o Shibboleth.BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E DISEGNO INDUSTRIALEIT-CE0107VAN01NVAN0195165BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA E DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE01CONS E-BOOK SBAARCH 01EBA195165 20210803 E-book – Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o Shibboleth.City of play : an architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure1852952UNICAMPANIA