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Title

Streets : critical perspectives on public space / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Çelik, Zeynep.
• Favro, Diane G.
• Ingersoll, Richard.

Description

vii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm

Summary

"This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo ... The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is a detailed investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political, and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space."

Subjects

• City planning
• Streets
• City planning > History
• History
• Streets > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFF 95-1659

ISBN

• 0520085507
• 9780520085503

LCCN

93042658

OCLC

29390265

Title

Streets : critical perspectives on public space / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Çelik, Zeynep.

Favro, Diane G.

Ingersoll, Richard.

Research Call Number

JFF 95-1659