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Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse
| Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse |
| Autore | Waterhouse Alan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720.94 |
| Collana | Heritage |
| Soggetto topico |
City planning - Europe - History
Architecture - Europe - History Urbanization - Europe - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4426-2358-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Expressive Meanings, Ancient and Modern -- 2. The Narrative of Boundary Architecture -- 3. Self-Interest and Reciprocity -- 4. Cities in a God-billed Landscape -- 5. Dividing the Urban Realm -- 6. Intensity, Insularity, and Communitas -- 7. The Subversion of Everyday Life -- 8. Urban Boundaries in Turmoil -- 9. The Dissolving Boundaries of Modernism -- 10. Retreat from a Magic Landscape -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459944603321 |
Waterhouse Alan
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse
| Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse |
| Autore | Waterhouse Alan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720.94 |
| Collana | Heritage |
| Soggetto topico |
City planning - Europe - History
Architecture - Europe - History Urbanization - Europe - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-5616-6
1-4426-2358-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787489803321 |
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Waterhouse Alan
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse
| Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / / Alan Waterhouse |
| Autore | Waterhouse Alan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 720.94 |
| Collana | Heritage |
| Soggetto topico |
City planning - Europe - History
Architecture - Europe - History Urbanization - Europe - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-5616-6
1-4426-2358-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807640803321 |
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Waterhouse Alan
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| Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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