Title & Author:

Urban visions : experiencing and envisioning the city / edited by Steven Spier.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : Tate Liverpool, [2002]

Description:

261 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm

Series:

Tate Liverpool critical forum ; v. 5

Notes:
Papers presented at a conference jointly sponsored by Tate Liverpool and the University of Liverpool.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-256) and index.
Foreword / Anne MacPhee, Elisa Oliver -- Introduction / Steven Spier -- Reading the city: between memory-image and distorted topography: Ingeborg Bachmann's essays on Rome (1955) and Berlin (1964) / Sigrid Weigel -- No place for a lady: women artists and urban prostitution in the Weimar Republic / t Marsha Meskimmon -- Photo portfolio: Thomas Struth / Anne MacPhee -- New York City, 1910-35: the politics and aesthetics of two modernities / Thomas Bender -- Las Vegas at middle age / Paul Davies -- Wish you were here / Malcolm Miles -- Mess is more / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown -- The new centre: architecture and urban planning in the capital of the German Democratic Republic / Jörn Düwel -- The permanent side: wishful thinking about the city of the telematic age / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- The map is not the territory: the unfinished journey of the Situationist International / Andrew Hussey -- Extract from 'Max Ferber', in The emigrants / W.G. Sebald.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
Container of (expression): Sebald, W.G. (Winifried Georg), 1944-2001 Max Ferber. Emigrants. London : Harvill Press, 1997 9781860463495 (OCoLC)222095404

Summary:

The modern city that was initiated by the great, violent forces unleashed by the industrialisation of Europe in the late eighteenth century is the city we still inhabit today: not so much in its physical form, but in the condition and sometimes affliction of being urban. The question of what kind of city we are trying to have is an urgent one as the world continues its dramatic urbanisation. Urban Visions presumes that an understanding of our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what the city could be. The contemporary city is a place of contested ownership and authorship. This book accepts that visions, which are currently more articulate in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning, need not always be utopian, heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something material that is designed - be it by architects, planners, or more often and anonymously larger societal or cultural forces. It is an intricate construction in which physical, cultural, commerical, historical, ideological and personal presences can coincide. The city must embrace, and its representations must reflect, the wealth or possible experiences of it. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions offers a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city's necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be. -- From cover flap.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

085323664X (paperback)
9780853236641 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns in art Congresses.
City and town life Congresses.
City planning Social aspects Congresses.
Vie urbaine Congrès.
Cities and towns in art.
City and town life.
City planning Social aspects.
Stadtplanung
Urbanität
Stadssociologie.
Beeldende kunsten.
Beleving.
Urban, regional and transport planning.
Architecture.
Arts and crafts.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Spier, Steven, editor, writer of introduction.
Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001, contributor.
Weigel, Sigrid, contributor.
Meskimmon, Marsha, contributor.
Struth, Thomas, 1954- contributor.
Bender, Thomas, contributor.
Miles, Malcolm, 1950- contributor.
Venturi, Robert, contributor.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- contributor.
Düwel, Jörn, contributor.
Magnago Lampugnani, Vittorio, 1951- contributor.
Davies, Paul, 1961- contributor.
Hussey, Andrew, contributor.
MacPhee, Anne, writer of foreword.
Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forum ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222294
Call No.: HT151 .U68 2002
Status: Available