Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design
Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 11:32 AMThis unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.
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that: this latest mutation in space — postmodern hyperspace — has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. 15 - Page 103
swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. - Page 124
looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit, The ordered - Page 123
we have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of - Page 242
the emphasis on the body should undoubtedly be linked to the process of growth and establishment of bourgeois hegemony: not, however, because of the market value assumed by labor capacity, but because of what the ‘cultivation' of its own body could represent politically, economically, and historically for the present and the future of the bourgeoisie. - Page 249
plat, as to the breadth way of it, so that there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards, or fields, that it may be a green - Page 138
the City of Philadelphia now extends in Length from River to River, two Miles and in Breadth near a Mile. . The City (as the model shews) consists of a large Front-street to each River and a High-street (near the middle) from Front (or River) - Page 138
semidesert, imports water three hundred miles, has inveterate flash floods, is at the grinding edges of two tectonic plates, and has a microclimate tenacious of noxious oxides will have its priorities among the aspects of its environment that it attempts to control. - Page 98
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+ By Rodolphe El-Khoury, Edward Robbins
+ Contributor, Edward Robbins, Rodolphe El - Khoury
+ Published 2004 Routledge
+ 320 pages
+ ISBN 0415261899