Main entry:

Rowe, Peter G.

Title & Author:

Civic realism / Peter G. Rowe.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-242) and index.
1. Reexamining the Public Realm -- 2. Civic Realms and Public Places -- 3. Realism and World Making -- 4. Individual Spaces and Collective Places -- 5. Representation and Constitution of Spatial Meanings -- 6. The Practice of Civic Realism.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society.
Topics covered in the book include the role of the state and civil society in the construction of civic spaces, aesthetic and architectural dimensions of realism, individual and collective uses of urban space, and how civic places constitute as well as represent the civic aspects of our lives. The examples, mostly from the modern period, include recent public spaces in Barcelona, several of the Grand Projects in Paris, neorealist projects in postwar Rome, contemporary transformations of the Manhattan grid, and Plecnik's water axis in prewar Ljubljana.

ISBN:

0262181800 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262181808 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public spaces.
City planning.
Architecture and state.
City Planning
Espaces publics.
Urbanisme.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale.
urban planning.
Platz
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Öffentlicher Raum
Openbare ruimte.
Stedenbouw.
Stadscultuur.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193863
Call No.: ID NA9053.S6.R69; ID:97-B490
Status: Available