Title & Author:

Streets : critical perspectives on public space / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

Description:

vii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
His majesty the pick : the aesthetics of demolition / Spiro Kostof -- Third and Howard : skid row and the limits of architecture : San Francisco / Paul Groth -- Underground in Umeda : Osaka / Marc Treib -- The birth of the commercial street : Kaifeng and Yangzhou / Heng Chye Kiang -- Gorki Street and the design of the Stalin revolution : Moscow / Greg Castillo -- Bayn al-Qasrayn : the street between the two palaces : Cairo / Nezar AlSayyad -- Urban preservation as theme park : the case of Soğukçeşme Street : Istanbul / Zeynep Çelik -- The street experience of ancient Ephesus / Fikret K. Yegül -- Etching images on the street : planning and national aspirations : Athens / Eleni Bastéa -- Noto's Corso remembered, 1693-1993 / Stephen Tobriner -- Piazza Castello and the making of a fascist colonial capital : Tripoli / Krystyna von Henneberg -- The street triumphant : the urban impact of Roman triumphal parades / Diane Favro -- Via della Lungaretta : the making of a medieval street : Rome / Deborah Robbins -- Piazza di Ponte and the military origins of panopticism : Rome / Richard Ingersoll -- Absolutism and the rhetoric of topography : streets in the Rome of Sixtus V / Charles Burroughs -- The healthy Victorian city : the old London Street at the International Health Exhibition of 1884 / Annmarie Adams -- Bute Street : Cardiff / Bruce Thomas -- Boulevard Muhammad V : Rabat / Gwendolyn Wright -- Hawkaypata : the terrace of leisure : Cuzco / Jean-Pierre Protzen & John Howland Rowe -- Silver Spring : Georgia Avenue, Colesville Road, and the creation of an alternative "downtown" for metropolitan Washington / Richard Longstreth -- Planning Wacker Drive : Chicago / Joan E. Draper -- The master street of the world : the levee : New Orleans / Dell Upton.

Summary:

"This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo ... The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is a detailed investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political, and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space."

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520085507
9780520085503
0520205286
9780520205284

Subject:

Kostof, Spiro, 1936-
Streets History.
City planning History.
Rues Histoire.
Urbanisme Histoire.
City planning.
Streets.
Geschichte
Stadtforschung
Straße
Straßenbau
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Straten.
Openbare ruimte.
Street names.
Herdenkingsbundels (vorm)
Roads Environment planning History

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Çelik, Zeynep.
Favro, Diane G.
Ingersoll, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108370
Call No.: NA9053.S7.S82 (ID:94-B2989)
Status: Available