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Item Number: 126259
Title: Cityscapes in History : Creating the Urban Experience
Author: Gulliver, Katrina ; Helena Toth (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409439592
Description: Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 254pp., 32 b&w illus. Contents: Foreword: cityscapes of the living past, Philip J. Ethington; Introduction, Katrina Gulliver and Heléna Tóth. Part I The City Planned: Performing the geographical imaginary in 19th-century Pittsburgh, Michael R. Glass; Towards the humanization of urban life: CIAM planners as advocates of the neighbourhood unit concept in the 1930s and 1940s, Konstanze Sylva Domhardt; To become a monument: artworks by Claes Oldenburg and Robert Smithson, Susanneh Bieber; Urbanization in socialism: everyday life in Yugoslav towns, 1945 to 1955, Ivana Dobrivojevic. Part II The City Lived: The city as the site of the other: the (dis)ordered colonial city, Katrina Gulliver; The architecture of hurry, Richard Dennis; The spatial concentration of homelessness on Skid Row, Ella Howard. Part III The City as a Stage: Rites of intent: the participatory dimensions of the city, Nicholas Temple; Building a new Jerusalem in Renaissance France: ceremonial entries and the transformation of the urban fabric, 1460-1600, Neil Murphy; ‘It must not look like expropriation’: the Cemetery Regulations of 1970 in Communist Hungary and the spatial aspects of the ‘battle between the religious and the materialist world view’, Heléna Tóth; Afterword: the new geography of hurry, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
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