LEADER 04259nam 2200697 450 001 9910459944603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2358-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623583 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329558 035 $a(EBL)3296750 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12626811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403773 035 $a(PQKB)11312609 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670242 035 $a(CEL)449191 035 $a(OCoLC)903421435 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00209581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3296750 035 $a(DE-B1597)465671 035 $a(OCoLC)944178933 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623583 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256756 035 $a(OCoLC)958580663 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329558 100 $a20160920h19931993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBoundaries of the city $ethe architecture of western urbanism /$fAlan Waterhouse 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1993. 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a0-8020-0538-1 311 $a1-4426-5504-6 320 $aIncludes bibliohraphical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tILLUSTRATIONS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1. Expressive Meanings, Ancient and Modern -- $t2. The Narrative of Boundary Architecture -- $t3. Self-Interest and Reciprocity -- $t4. Cities in a God-billed Landscape -- $t5. Dividing the Urban Realm -- $t6. Intensity, Insularity, and Communitas -- $t7. The Subversion of Everyday Life -- $t8. Urban Boundaries in Turmoil -- $t9. The Dissolving Boundaries of Modernism -- $t10. Retreat from a Magic Landscape -- $tNOTES -- $tILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- $tGENERAL INDEX -- $tINDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS 330 $aIn 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. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and insecurities about crime, insurrection, and the violent disruption of everyday life. At the same time, contrary instincts aspire to create a unified domain, to proclaim the interdependence of things through constructed work. Cities are shaped less by rational design than by a recurring dialectic of boundary formation.These impulses underlie the formal vocabulary of architecture and urbanism. Waterhouse follows them through the theories, ideologies, and styles that seem to govern city buildings; he finds their presence in the creation of territorial divisions, and also wherever the cityscape has been shaped by a poetic imagination.Tracing his narrative of urban boundaries from antiquity to the birth of modernism, Waterhouse discovers some stubborn legacies that bind contemporary urban design to the past. Part One explores the boundary dialectic in our regard for deities, for nature, and for one another, and then as a powerful influence on architectural invention and our ways of life. Part Two traces these themes through city building history, to show how architecture and human relatedness are subordinated by boundary formation in the cycles of urbanization. Disclaimer: Image 6.5 removed at the request of the rights holder. 606 $aCity planning$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aArchitecture$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aUrbanization$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory. 615 0$aArchitecture$xHistory. 615 0$aUrbanization$xHistory. 676 $a720.94 700 $aWaterhouse$b Alan$0997819 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459944603321 996 $aBoundaries of the city$92288440 997 $aUNINA