Streets: critical perspectives on public space

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The instance Streets: critical perspectives on public space represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.

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Streets: critical perspectives on public space

Instantiates

• Streets: critical perspectives on public space

Publication

• Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994
• 1994

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

His majesty the pick : the aesthetics of demolition / Spiro Kostof -- Third and Howard : skid row and the limits of architecture : San Francisco / Paul Groth -- Underground in Umeda : Osaka / Marc Treib -- The birth of the commercial street : Kaifeng and Yangzhou / Heng Chye Kiang -- Gorki Street and the design of the Stalin revolution : Moscow / Greg Castillo -- Bayn al-Qasrayn : the street between the two palaces : Cairo / Nezar AlSayyad -- Urban preservation as theme park : the case of Soğukçeşme Street : Istanbul / Zeynep Çelik -- The street experience of ancient Ephesus / Fikret K. Yegül -- Etching images on the street : planning and national aspirations : Athens / Eleni Bastéa -- Noto's Corso remembered, 1693-1993 / Stephen Tobriner -- Piazza Castello and the making of a fascist colonial capital : Tripoli / Krystyna von Henneberg -- The street triumphant : the urban impact of Roman triumphal parades / Diane Favro -- Via della Lungaretta : the making of a medieval street : Rome / Deborah Robbins -- Piazza di Ponte and the military origins of panopticism : Rome / Richard Ingersoll -- Absolutism and the rhetoric of topography : streets in the Rome of Sixtus V / Charles Burroughs -- The healthy Victorian city : the old London Street at the International Health Exhibition of 1884 / Annmarie Adams -- Bute Street : Cardiff / Bruce Thomas -- Boulevard Muhammad V : Rabat / Gwendolyn Wright -- Hawkaypata : the terrace of leisure : Cuzco / Jean-Pierre Protzen & John Howland Rowe -- Silver Spring : Georgia Avenue, Colesville Road, and the creation of an alternative "downtown" for metropolitan Washington / Richard Longstreth -- Planning Wacker Drive : Chicago / Joan E. Draper -- The master street of the world : the levee : New Orleans / Dell Upton

Dimensions

27 cm

Extent

vii, 294 pages

Isbn

9780520085503

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, maps

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b1684824