05405nam 2200757 450 991078748980332120230618050606.01-4426-5616-61-4426-2358-610.3138/9781442623583(CKB)3710000000329558(EBL)3296750(SSID)ssj0001420403(PQKBManifestationID)12626811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420403(PQKBWorkID)11403773(PQKB)11312609(CEL)449191(OCoLC)903421435(CaBNVSL)slc00209581(DE-B1597)465671(OCoLC)944178933(DE-B1597)9781442623583(Au-PeEL)EBL4670242(CaPaEBR)ebr11256756(OCoLC)958580663(MiAaPQ)EBC4670242(MiAaPQ)EBC3296750(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107019(EXLCZ)99371000000032955820160920h19931993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBoundaries of the city the architecture of western urbanism /Alan WaterhouseToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1993.©19931 online resource (367 p.)HeritageIncludes indexes.0-8020-0538-1 1-4426-5504-6 Includes bibliohraphical references and index.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.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.City planningEuropeHistoryArchitectureEuropeHistoryUrbanizationEuropeHistoryEuropefastHistory.Electronic books. City planningHistory.ArchitectureHistory.UrbanizationHistory.720.94Waterhouse Alan1482891MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787489803321Boundaries of the city3700808UNINA