The scenes of the street and other essays
By: Anthony Vidler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781580932707
Subjects: Architecture and society; City planning; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The scenes of the street : transformations in ideal and reality, 1750-1871; title: Transparency and utopia : constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault; title: Architecture, management, and morals : the design of a factory community at the end of the eighteenth century; title: Mercier as urbanist : the utopia of the real; title: The paradoxes of vandalism : Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian discourse on historical monuments; title: Building the urban book : Nodier in the library; title: X marks the spot : the obelisk in space; title: Paris démoli/Paris futur; title: The new industrial world : the reconstruction of urban utopia in late-nineteenth-century France; title: The modern acropolis : Tony Garnier from La cité antique to Une cité industrielle; title: The idea of unity and Le Corbusier's urban form; title: The space of history : modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier; title: Photourbanism : planning the city from above and below; title: Unknown lands : Guy Debord and the cartographies of a landscape to be invented; title: Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France.