Amy Thomas

The City in the City

Architecture and Change in London's Financial District

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book charts the development of London's financial district, the City of London, in the decades following the Second World War, investigating the relationship between economic and built change"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 994g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048415
• ISBN-10: 0262048418
• Artikelnr.: 68430824

Autorenporträt

Amy Thomas is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Delft University of Technology. She has published articles in The Journal of Architecture, Grey Room, Architectural Theory Review and ARCH+.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue xxi
1 City 1
Vested Interests 3
A Few Houses and a Few Personalities 21
The Corporation's Two Faces 31
Proactive Planners 52
A City, Aligned 69
2 Street 77
The Architecture of the Short View 79
Knowledge in a Hurry 107
Psychic Profits 122
Underground Citadels 138
Concrete Realities 149
3 Facade 153
A Question of Confidence 155
Expert Packaging 176
Layers of Longevity 196
Performance, Reviewed 212
4 Interior 215
In the Roar of the Jungle 217
Microcosms of Meritocracy 236
The Coffeehouse Feeling 247
Defying Mahogany Gravity 268
Empty Desks 296
Epilogue 299
Acknowledgments 313
Notes 315
Index 341