Main entry:

Meyer, Han, 1951-

Title & Author:

City and port : urban planning as a cultural venture in London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam : changing relations between public urban space and large-scale infrastructure / Han Meyer.

Publication:

Utrecht : International Books, ©1999.

Description:

424 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. The nineteenth-century port city on its way to the twenty-first century -- 1. The identity of the port city: The emergence of 'the cultural factor' -- 2. The modernity of the port city: Shaping the tension of public space -- 3. On to the twenty-first century: Disappearance or renewal of public space? -- 4. Redefining the public domain -- Chapter 2. The English port city: London and the wonder of docklands -- 1. Between individual dwelling and regional plan -- 2. The docks as a microcosm of the British empire -- 3. The docks as divisive element in regional planning -- 4. The new course -- 5. Balance: From west end to east end -- Chapter 3. The Mediterranean port city: Barcelona and the other modern tradition -- 1. The premodern port city: The orientation of the city toward the sea -- 2. Modernity in the Mediterranean region: Barcelona as a European city on the water -- 3. The uncompleted project of modernism: Spatial form or building form? -- 4. Barcelona's 'urbanismo': Recapturing public space -- 5. Balance: The ongoing spatial organization of the city -- Chapter 4. The North American port city: New York, a boundless urban landscape -- 1. The 'pure' modernity of the American city: Between cultural and economic principles -- 2. The modernity of the port city: The port area, from neutral to marginal zone -- 3. Modernism on the waterfront: The city merges with the landscape -- 4. After modernism: Cities are fun : Revaluation of the complexity of the nineteenth-century city -- 5. Balance: Fragmentation or coherence -- Chapter 5. The northwestern European port city: Rotterdam and the dynamic of the delta -- 1. City, port, and dikes -- 2. The modern transit port: The search for a new symbiosis of port and city -- 3. Modernism in the port city: A dualistic relationship between city and port -- 4. After modernism: The search for new fundamentals of design -- 5. Balance: Restless relations between city and river -- Chapter 6. Urbanizing infrastructure: An urban design project.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

905727020X
9789057270208

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
City planning Case studies.
Harbors Case studies.
Urbanisme Études de cas.
Ports Études de cas.
City planning
Harbors
Hafen
Stadtplanung
Stadtgestaltung
Hafenstadt
Infrastrukturplanung
Stedenbouw.
Havensteden.
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisme.
Ports.
Hafen Barcelona
Hafen London
Hafen Rotterdam
Barcelona
London
Rotterdam
New York, NY
Puertos.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231104
Call No.: NA9053.H3 M4 1999
Status: Available