The public face of architecture : civic culture and public spaces / edited by Nathan Glazer, Mark Lilla.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1987.
Description
xvi, 512 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographies and index.
      Contents
      • Introduction / by Nathan Glazer and Mark Ulla
      • Part I : Principles of public spaces. Introduction ; The Public realm : the common / Hannah Arendt ; Public space and the classical vernacular / Roger Scruton ; The public domain / Richard Sennett ; Monuments and plazas / Camillo Sitte ; The medieval town / Lewis Mumford ; The discovery of the street / J.B. Jackson ; Paris, capital of the nineteenth century / Walter Benjamin ; The uses of sidewalks : contact / Jane Jacobs
      • Part II : Civic architecture. Introduction ; Forum follows function / J.B. Jackson ; A meaning for monuments / William Hubbard ; Collective significance / Moshe Safdie ; Public buildings : symbols qualified by experience / Donlyn Lyndon ; The triumph of the capitol / Michael A. Scully ; The city council chamber : from distance to intimacy / Charles T. Goodsell ; Symbolism in architecture : courtrooms / Allan Greenberg
      • Part III : Open spaces. Introduction ; Public parks and the enlargement of towns / Frederick Law Olmsted ; The motive behind Olmsted's park / Roger Starr ; The American public space / J.B. Jackson ; The social life of small urban spaces / William H. Whyte ; Living with lobbies / Neil Harris ; Spaced-out at the shopping center / Neil Harris
      • Part IV : Public art. Introduction ; The malignant object : thoughts on public sculpture / Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour ; Dissent and reply ; The malignant objectors / Wolf von Eckardt ; Paradigms in public sculpture / John Beardsley ; The meaning of place / Ronald Lee Fleming ; Artists in society / Edward Levine ; A reply / Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour ; On subway graffiti in New York / Nathan Glazer
      • Part V : City and planning. Introduction ; You have to pay for the public life / Charles W. Moore ; Paris : the view from New York / Nathan Glazer ; Landmarks preservation in New York / Joseph B. Rose ; Educating architects : pedagogy and the pendulum / Robert Gutman ; The current crisis of disorder / Jaquelin Robertson
      • Biographical notes.
      ISBN
      • 0029118115
      • 9780029118115
      LCCN
      86033609
      OCLC
      15084097
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