Research Catalog

Title

Intimate metropolis : urban subjects in the modern city / edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton and Marina Lathouri.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Di Palma, Vittoria.
• Periton, Diana.
• Lathouri, Marina.

Description

x, 278 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

Questions traditional conceptualizations of 'public' and 'private,' and illuminates the ways in which the modern metropolis can be seen as a peculiarly intimate construction, with its notion of the public predicated ultimately on a concept of the private individual or autonomous self.

Subject

• Architecture > Human factors
• Domestic space

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri -- Urban life / Diana Periton -- Heads: Philip-Lorca di Corcia and the paradox of urban portraiture / Hugh Campbell -- A space for the imagination: depicting women readers in the nineteenth-century city / Kathryn Brown -- "So the flâneur goes for a walk in his room": interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis / Charles Rice -- Exhibitionism: John Soane's "model house" / Helene Furján -- Private house, public house: Victor Horta's ubiquitous domesticity / Amy Catania Kulper -- Drawing and dispute: the strategies of the Berlin block / Katharina Borsi -- "The necessity of the plan": visions of individuality and collective intimacies / Marina Lathouri -- City is house and house is city: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the architecture of homecoming / Karin Jaschke -- Urban play: intimate space and postwar subjectivity / Roy Kozlovsky -- Pervasive intimacy: the Unité d'habitation and Golden Lane as instruments of postwar domesticity / Christopher Hight -- Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy / Vittoria Di Palma.

Call Number

JQZ 12-1463

ISBN

• 0415415063 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415415064 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415415071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415415071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0203890051 (ebk.)
• 9780203890059 (ebk.)

LCCN

2008014906

OCLC

221960757

Title

Intimate metropolis : urban subjects in the modern city / edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton and Marina Lathouri.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Di Palma, Vittoria.

Periton, Diana.

Lathouri, Marina.

Research Call Number

JQZ 12-1463