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Author : Gerald M. MacLean,Donna Landry,Joseph P. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521592011
A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.
Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135802493
The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.
Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : City and town life in literature
ISBN : LCCN:75302838
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015007543294
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039129031
A revision of The unheavenly city. Bibliography: p. [291]-292.
Author : Nora Pleßke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783839426722
Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Author : Raymon WILLIAMS
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1849003912
Author : Pascale Guibert
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042032620
Too many landscapes have been reduced to silent commodities by being put into golden frames on top of our fireplaces. Too many landscapes have been reified by being considered as objects holding forth referents to an omnipotent looker-on, with his/her language ever ready to seize and transcribe. The articles gathered here, prolonging an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France), 14-16 June 2007, set the landscapes loose again by engaging with their essentially relational quality. What makes this volume particularly stimulating and critically innovative is this initial acknowledgement of a landscape's reflectiveness - that is the fact that it contains unthought thought, and thus presents itself to us both passively and actively. This straightaway appraisal of the lines of flight in the seemingly static, tranquil images facing us, has opened the way to deeply critical readings bent on questioning old tracks, testing new itineraries, denying the closure of the subject. At the same time, and by way of consequence, it leads us to encounter the force in landscape. A force like an energy, an impetus, which makes it possible - if not advisable - to still compose, read and enjoy landscapes in the XXIst century.
Author : M. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230101050
This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.
Author : Ken Regan
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781973631828
In his first book of poetry, Living Within a City, published in 1978, the author explores themes of loss, separation, and finally hope, lifting itself past walls of confinement. Now, forty years later, the author revisits those themes in a sequel to that first collection, still finding the hope that rises out of the daily struggles of life.
Author : William H. Sokolic,Robert E. Ruffolo, Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738549045
In 1854, a group of engineers and railroad businessmen drew a straight line from Philadelphia to the New Jersey coast, built a railroad along the line, and created Atlantic City. From the 1850s to the 1950s, the city attracted the creme of American society and the working class alike and gave birth to the beauty pageant, rolling chair, boardwalk, saltwater taffy, jitney, and the successful Monopoly board game. But the onset of air travel in the 1950s and the aging grand hotels brought Atlantic City to its knees. The opening of Resorts International in 1978 and the prosperous gaming business that followed in its wake helped the city rise from its own ashes, and a year-round tourism industry exploded. Garish and opulent casino hotels replaced many of the boardwalk dowagers, and new palaces transformed the once desolate marina section into a vibrant destination.
Author : Donna Landry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780230287570
Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization.
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521294800
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Author : Peter Remien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108496810
Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.
Author : Bridget Orr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108499712
Reveals how England's eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.