Main entry:

Di Palma, Vittoria, editor.

Title & Author:

Intimate metropolis : urban subjects in the modern city / edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton and Marina Lathouri.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Description:

x, 278 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri -- Urban life / Diana Periton -- Heads: Philip-Lorca di Corcia and the paradox of urban portraiture / Hugh Campbell -- A space for the imagination: depicting women readers in the nineteenth-century city / Kathryn Brown -- "So the flâneur goes for a walk in his room": interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis / Charles Rice -- Exhibitionism: John Soane's "model house" / Helene Furján -- Private house, public house: Victor Horta's ubiquitous domesticity / Amy Catania Kulper -- Drawing and dispute: the strategies of the Berlin block / Katharina Borsi -- "The necessity of the plan": visions of individuality and collective intimacies / Marina Lathouri -- City is house and house is city: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the architecture of homecoming / Karin Jaschke -- Urban play: intimate space and postwar subjectivity / Roy Kozlovsky -- Pervasive intimacy: the Unité d'habitation and Golden Lane as instruments of postwar domesticity / Christopher Hight -- Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy / Vittoria Di Palma.

Summary:

Questions traditional conceptualizations of 'public' and 'private, ' and illuminates the ways in which the modern metropolis can be seen as a peculiarly intimate construction, with its notion of the public predicated ultimately on a concept of the private individual or autonomous self.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415415063 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415415064 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415415071 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415415071 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0203890051 (ebk.)
9780203890059 (ebk.)

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Domestic space.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Espace domestique.
Städtebau
Sozialraum
Städer.
Arkitektur.

Added entries:

Periton, Diana, editor.
Lathouri, Marina, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262304
Call No.: BIB 193411
Status: Available