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Author : Daryl G. Morrissey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1364614111
This is my story, 'London: The Unfinished City', accompanied by a personal selection of photographs, that I have taken, of the great city herself.
Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195375152
"Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces--such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway--have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, the book also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space"--
Author : Ardis Butterfield
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843840731
Presenting essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet, and the urban context for his writings, this volume addresses the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and the importance of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0753556405
London is a city full of colour and contradiction. Its myriad of maze-like streets can transport you to tranquil green spaces or bustling markets and the lively sounds of people coming and going. You can eat your way around the world or travel through time watching the past and future collide on its iconic skyline. London is a million different cities for a million different people. In this interactive sketchbook, collect, document and draw your observations of the city. Full of inspiration, thought starters and prompts to inspire and unleash your creativity, collect all the different sounds you can hear, map the buildings, sketch the skylines, fill in the people on the bus and create a truly unique and personal London travel journal. Rip up the guidebook and take a fresh look at the city.
Author : John Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101079831572
Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56262221
Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1000360317
Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857200259
If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's capital has been associated with desire, avarice and the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises, a monk writing in 1180, warned that 'every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities'. As early as the second century AD, London was notorious for its raucous festivities and disorderly houses, and throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root and flourished. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city's relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17thand 18thcenturies, London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket, its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour. In her usual accessible and entertaining style, Arnold takes us on a journey through the fleshpots of London from earliest times to present day. Here are buxom strumpets, louche aristocrats, popinjay politicians and Victorian flagellants - all vying for their place in London's league of licentiousness. From sexual exuberance to moral panic, the city has seen the pendulum swing from Puritanism to hedonism and back again. With latter chapters looking at Victorian London and the sexual underground of the 20thcentury and beyond, this is a fascinating and vibrant chronicle of London at its most raw and ribald.
Author : Jack Brown,Richard Brown,Tony Travers
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785906367
This year, London's elected mayor and assembly turn twenty. But has London's mayoralty lived up to the expectations that were set for it? Have its three mayors been able to get to grips with the city's challenges? How have they responded to crises in the past – and what does the future hold? This important new book marks the twentieth anniversary of London's mayor and assembly and investigates the relative successes and challenges of the mayoralty to date, before asking what comes next for London. It combines analysis by experts with reflections from those closely involved in setting up, running and working with the Greater London Authority, alongside those who have held the position of Mayor of London themselves.
Author : Christoph Lindner,Brian Rosa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813576480
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyze the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects directly involved in the High Line’s design, this volume also brings together a diverse range of scholars from the fields of urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Together, they offer insights into the project’s remarkable success, while also giving serious consideration to the critical charge that the High Line is “Disney World on the Hudson,” a project that has merely greened, sanitized, and gentrified an urban neighborhood while displacing longstanding residents and businesses. Deconstructing the High Line is not just for New Yorkers, but for anyone interested in larger issues of public space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and urban renewal.
Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137120069
Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.
Author : Tom Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136742200
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.
Author : John Stow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : London (England)
ISBN : NYPL:33433004053405
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11611965
Author : Jacqueline Van Gent
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409432395
Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative discourses and lived experiences and their manifestations in a range of different sources; and, explores the insecurities, anxieties and instability of masculine governance and the ways in which these were expressed (or controlled) in emotional states, language or performance. Focussing on moments of exercising power, this collection seeks to understand the methods, strategies, discourses or resources that men were able (or not) to employ in order to have this power. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of male governance the essays explore the following questions: how was male governance demonstrated and enacted through men's (and women's) bodies? What roles did women play in sustaining, supporting or undermining governing masculinities? And what are the relationship of specific spaces such as household or urban environments to notions and practice of governance? Finally, this collection emphasises the power of sources to articulate the ideas of governance held by particular social groups and to obscure those of others. Through a rich and wide range of case studies, this collection explores what distinctions can be seen in ideas of authoritative masculine behaviour across Protestant and Catholic cultures, British and Continental models, from the late medieval to the end of the eighteenth century, and between urban and national expressions of authority.