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The public face of architecture : civic culture and public spaces / edited by Nathan Glazer, Mark Lilla.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1987.
Description
xvi, 512 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NA9050.5 .P8 1987
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Subject(s)
Public architecture
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United States
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Public spaces
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United States
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City planning
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Open spaces
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Public architecture
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Parks
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Monuments
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Art, Municipal
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City planning
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History
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Lilla, Mark
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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.
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ISBN
0029118115
9780029118115
LCCN
86033609
OCLC
15084097
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