The scenes of the street and other essays

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Vidler, Anthony, 1941- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Monacelli Press, c2011
Edition1st ed.
Subjects
eseje
essays
urbanismus > dějiny > Francie > 19.-20. století
dějiny architektury > Francie > 19.-20. století
architektura a společnost
city planning > history > France > 19th-20th centuries
history of architecture > France > 19th-20th centuries
architecture and society
ISBN9781580932707
Physical Description368 s. : il. ; 26 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • The scenes of the street : transformations in ideal and reality, 1750-1871
  • Transparency and utopia : constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault
  • Architecture, management, and morals : the design of a factory community at the end of the eighteenth century
  • Mercier as urbanist : the utopia of the real
  • The paradoxes of vandalism : Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian discourse on historical monuments
  • Building the urban book : Nodier in the library
  • X marks the spot : the obelisk in space
  • Paris démoli/Paris futur
  • The new industrial world : the reconstruction of urban utopia in late-nineteenth-century France
  • The modern acropolis : Tony Garnier from La cité antique to Une cité industrielle
  • The idea of unity and Le Corbusier's urban form
  • The space of history : modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier
  • Photourbanism : planning the city from above and below
  • Unknown lands : Guy Debord and the cartographies of a landscape to be invented
  • Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France

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