Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

vii, 294 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• City planning > History
• Streets > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Foreword: Streets and the Urban Process: A Tribute to Spiro Kostof -- His Majesty the Pick: The Aesthetics of Demolition / Spiro Kostof -- 1. San Francisco: Third and Howard: Skid Row and the Limits of Architecture / Paul Groth -- 2. Osaka: Underground in Umeda / Marc Treib -- 3. Kaifeng and Yangzhou: The Birth of the Commercial Street / Heng Chye Kiang -- 4. Moscow: Gorki Street and the Design of the Stalin Revolution / Greg Castillo -- 5. Cairo: Bayn al-Qasrayn: The Street between the Two Palaces / Nezar AlSayyad -- 6. Istanbul: Urban Preservation as Theme Park: The Case of Sogukcesme Street / Zeynep Celik -- 7. Ephesus: The Street Experience of Ancient Ephesus / Fikret K. Yegul -- 8. Athens: Etching Images on the Street: Planning and National Aspirations / Eleni Bastea -- 9. Noto: Noto's Corso Remembered, 1693-1993 / Stephen Tobriner -- 10. Tripoli: Piazza Castello and the Making of a Fascist Colonial Capital / Krystyna von Henneberg.
• 11. Rome: The Street Triumphant: The Urban Impact of Roman Triumphal Parades / Diane Favro -- 12. Rome: Via della Lungaretta: The Making of a Medieval Street / Deborah Robbins -- 13. Rome: Piazza di Ponte and the Military Origins of Panopticism / Richard Ingersoll -- 14. Rome: Absolutism and the Rhetoric of Topography: Streets in the Rome of Sixtus V / Charles Burroughs -- 15. London: The Healthy Victorian City: The Old London Street at the International Health Exhibition of 1884 / Annmarie Adams -- 16. Cardiff: Bute Street / Bruce Thomas -- 17. Rabat: Boulevard Muhammad V / Gwendolyn Wright -- 18. Cuzco: Hawkaypata: The Terrace of Leisure / Jean-Pierre Protzen and John Howland Rowe -- 19. Washington, D.C.: Silver Spring: Georgia Avenue, Colesville Road, and the Creation of an Alternative "Downtown" for Metropolitan Washington / Richard Longstreth -- 20. Chicago: Planning Wacker Drive / Joan E. Draper -- 21. New Orleans: The Master Street of the World: The Levee / Dell Upton.

ISBN

0520085507

LCCN

93042658

OCLC

• 29390265
• ocm29390265

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries