Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520085507 ISBN 13 : 9780520085503

Editeur : University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, 14th-century Cairo, 19th-century New Orleans, and 20th-century Tokyo. Focusing on individual streets around the world and from different historical periods, the collection is an inviting overview of the street as an urban institution. The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is an investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Zeynep Çelik is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Diane Favro is Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Ingersoll is Associate Professor of Architecture, Rice University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520085507
• ISBN 13: 9780520085503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Çelik Zeynep, Favro Diane, Ingersoll Richard
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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