Intimate metropolis
Subtitle: urban subjects in the modern city
By: edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton and Marina Lathouri.
Contributors: Di Palma, Vittoria.; Periton, Diana.; Lathouri, Marina.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415415064; 9780415415071; 9780203890059
Subjects: Architecture -- Human factors; Domestic space
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri; title: Urban life / Diana Periton; title: Heads: Philip-Lorca di Corcia and the paradox of urban portraiture  / Hugh Campbell; title: A space for the imagination: depicting women readers in the nineteenth-century city / Kathryn Brown; title: "So the flâneur goes for a walk in his room": interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis / Charles Rice; title: Exhibitionism: John Soane's "model house" / Helene Furján; title: Private house, public house: Victor Horta's ubiquitous domesticity / Amy Kulper; title: Drawing and dispute: the strategies of the Berlin block / Katharina Borsi; title: "The necessity of the plan": visions of individuality and collective intimacies / Marina Lathouri; title: City is house and house is city: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the architecture of homecoming / Karin Jaschke; title: Urban play: intimate space and postwar subjectivity / Roy Kozlovsky; title: Pervasive intimacy: the Unité d'habitation and Golden Lane as instruments of postwar domesticity / Christopher Hight; title: Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy / Vittoria Di Palma.