This is an encyclopaedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with analytical examples in literature. It will interest researchers, students, architects, urban planners, and readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, lit and cultural studies.
This is an encyclopaedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with analytical examples in literature. It will interest researchers, students, architects, urban planners, and readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, lit and cultural studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Martin Zerlang is a full professor of literature and modern culture at the University of Copenhagen. During the last 15 years, he - together with architects and other urbanists - has participated in a number of architectural competitions and taken first prize in three of these. He has edited a collection of essays on Representing London, and has published articles in English on the Tivoli Gardens, the New York World Exposition 1853, and Israels Plads, a city square in Copenhagen. He has published several books on urban culture and urban literature, among these Zoom København (2017) and books on the bicycle (2018), the car (2021), and the train (2023) in Danish culture.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1: Words on the square 2: The mediated square 3: Shapes and forms 4: Doves and dances PART II: HISTORICAL TYPES 5: The Agora 6: Forum Romanum 7: Medieval Marketplace 8: The piazza 9: The plaza 10: The Place Royale 11: The residential square 12: The Crescent in Bath PART III: REPRESENTING MODERN SQUARES 13: Place de la Concorde 14: Between demonization and domestication 15: Squares in European literature 16: Squares in Latin American literature 17: The American Corner PART IV: PLANNERS AND MODERNIZATION 18: Ildefonso Cerdà and Barcelona 19: Charles Buls and Brussels 20: Camillo Sitte and Vienna PART V: TRENDS IN THE 20th CENTURY 21: Modernism 22: Communism 23: Consumerism PART VI: THE POLITICAL SQUARE 24: The Arab square 25: Maidan and Maidanistas Concluding Words
Introduction PART I: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1: Words on the square 2: The mediated square 3: Shapes and forms 4: Doves and dances PART II: HISTORICAL TYPES 5: The Agora 6: Forum Romanum 7: Medieval Marketplace 8: The piazza 9: The plaza 10: The Place Royale 11: The residential square 12: The Crescent in Bath PART III: REPRESENTING MODERN SQUARES 13: Place de la Concorde 14: Between demonization and domestication 15: Squares in European literature 16: Squares in Latin American literature 17: The American Corner PART IV: PLANNERS AND MODERNIZATION 18: Ildefonso Cerdà and Barcelona 19: Charles Buls and Brussels 20: Camillo Sitte and Vienna PART V: TRENDS IN THE 20th CENTURY 21: Modernism 22: Communism 23: Consumerism PART VI: THE POLITICAL SQUARE 24: The Arab square 25: Maidan and Maidanistas Concluding Words
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