The Mayors' Institute [[electronic resource] ] : excellence in city design / / National Endowment for the Arts, the Mayors' Institute on City Design ; James S. Russell, editor ; Mark Robbins, series editor |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 124 pages : digital, PDF file |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RussellJames S. <1952->
RobbinsMark <1956-> |
Collana | NEA series on design |
Soggetto topico |
Public architecture - United States
Public spaces - United States City planning - United States Urban beautification - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Mayors' Institute |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694425003321 |
Washington, D.C. : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , [2002] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Mayors' Institute on City Design [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , [2004] |
Descrizione fisica | 22 pages : digital, PDF file |
Soggetto topico |
Urban beautification - United States
Public architecture - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910695460803321 |
Washington, DC : , : National Endowment for the Arts, , [2004] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455430903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777960903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture / / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815105503321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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