Main entry:

Waterhouse, Alan.

Title & Author:

Boundaries of the city : the architecture of western urbanism / Alan Waterhouse.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto, c1993.

Description:

xxiii, 342 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes:
Illumination and Disaggregation. Imperial Rome: The Porous City. Crafted Towns. Anti-Theoretical Townscapes. The Fall of Roman Urbanism. 6. Intensity, Insularity, and Communitas. Cities of the Mind. The Cloister. Competing Boundaries. The Armature of Florence. Siena: Urbanism versus the Feuding Household. The Hearth and the Seam. Transforming the Thresholds. Opening the Boundaries. 7. The Subversion of Everyday Life. The Land Question in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture. The New Suburban Boundary Architecture. Borromini's 'Corrosive Light'. Lorenzetti Reborn. Constructing the Proprietary Boundaries. From Poche to Pavilion: French Urban and Suburban Space. Positivism and the Neoclassical Paradigm. 8. Urban Boundaries in Turmoil. Berlin: The Courtyard and the Street. The Formative Years. Mobilizing the City: Mobs and Reformers. The Landscape of Officialdom. Urban Space Turns Fluid. 9. The Dissolving Boundaries of Modernism. Industry, Boundaries, and Architectural Ideology.
German Industry and Architecture. The Advent of Industrial Science and Scientific Management. Architecture and Industry in Berlin before the Fagus-Werk. AEG in the Inner City. Carl Benscheidt: Self-Interest in the Suburbs. Benscheidt and Gropius: The Incubus Meets Proteus. Words, Weight, and New Boundaries. Urbanism and Industrial Power. 10. Retreat from a Magic Landscape. Empty Boundary Zones. The Unsettlers. The Family as Metropolitan Hero.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Elements of the Boundary Idea. 1. Expressive Meanings, Ancient and Modern. The Source of Urban Boundaries. Poetry and Construction. Urbanism and Dialectics. The Primary Structures of Urbanism. Imagining Unity: Connecting to History the Dissolution of Space. Expressive Meaning and the Arrangement of Urban Space. 2. The Narrative of Boundary Architecture. The Dialectical Archetype. Archetypal Form and Archetypal Content. Architecture and Recurrence. Architectural Narrative. Architectural Discourse and Expressive Meaning. Foreground Moves to Background. 3. Self-Interest and Reciprocity. The Urbanism of Self-Interest. The Mechanical City. The Methodological Inversion. Family Contradictions -- Pt. 2. Urban Boundaries in Practice. 4. Cities in a God-Filled Landscape. The Crucible of Deconstruction. Hellenistic Functionalism. Permeable Boundaries. The Conquest of the Site. Classical Absences. Hestia and the Black Hunter. 5. Dividing the Urban Realm. The Intransigence of Nero.

ISBN:

0802005381
9780802005380

Subject:

City planning Europe History.
Architecture Europe History.
Urbanization Europe History.
Urbanisation Europe Histoire.
Architecture.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86375
Call No.: ID:93-B1863
Status: Available