Town and square from the agora to the village green.

Main entry:

Zucker, Paul, 1889-1971.

Title & Author:

Town and square from the agora to the village green.

Publication:

New York, Columbia University Press, 1959.

Description:

xxiii, 287 pages illustrations, plans 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275).
The square in space and time. The archetypes -- Paradoxes of history -- Town and square in antiquity. Towns without squares -- Acropolis and agora in archaic Greece -- Hippodamic and Hellenistic towns and their agoras -- The Hippodamic and Hellenistic concepts of external space -- Roman towns and their fora -- The Roman concept of external space -- The medieval town and square. The origins of medieval towns -- The morphology of the medieval square -- Some specific medieval solutions -- The medieval concept of external space -- The Renaissance town and square. Basic Italian theories and utopias -- Realizations in space in Italy -- French and German theories and utopias -- Realizations in space in Central and Northern Europe -- Realizations in space in Spain and the New World -- The Renaissance concept of external space.
Town and square from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Baroque squares in Italy -- Classicistic squares in Italy -- Town and square in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France -- The internalization of French and Italian concepts -- Baroque and Classicistic concepts of external space -- Early American public squares. The uses of the square -- The setting of the square -- The design of the square -- Summary and conclusion.
In Related Ephemera: rubbing on silver foil of coin(s) or medallion(s) or recto/verso of a single item which reads "Nederland Herrijst 1946 10 G 1970?" and "Willhelmina Koningin der Nederland".

Subject:

Plazas.
City planning History.
Places.
Urbanisme Histoire.
shopping plazas.
squares (open spaces)
plazas (squares)
plazas (administrative)
City planning.
Urbanisme.
Cities and towns Planning History.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 184399
Call No.: ID:86-B3291
Status: Available

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