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Titre: The Spectator and the Topographical City (Regional)
�diteur: University of Pittsburgh Press
Date de parution: 2006
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0822942887
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780822942887
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: 1st Edition
�tat de l'article: Very Good
�tat de la jaquette: Very Good
Sign�: Inscribed by Author(s)

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The Spectator and the Topographical City examines Pittsburgh's built environment as it relates to the city's unique topography. Martin Aurand explores the conditions present in the natural landscape that led to the creation of architectural forms: the human response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. From its origins as a frontier fortification to its heyday of industrial expansion, through eras of City Beautiful planning and urban Renaissance to today's vision of a green sustainable city, Pittsburgh has offered environmental and architectural experiences unlike any other place. Aurand adopts the viewpoint of the spectator to study three of Pittsburgh's ""terrestrial rooms"": the downtown Golden Triangle; the Turtle Creek Valley with its industrial landscape; and Oakland, the cultural and university district. He examines the development of these areas and their significance to our perceptions of a singular American city, shaped to its topography.

� propos de l?auteur

Martin Aurand is architecture librarian and archivist at Carnegie Mellon University.

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