Research Catalog

Title

A Vision of Europe : rinascimento urbano = urban renaissance = renaissance urbaine / a cura di Gabriele Tagliaventi.

Publication

Bologna : Grafis, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tagliaventi, Gabriele.
• Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948-
• Chiesa di S. Giorgio in Poggiale (Bologna, Italy)
• Cassa di risparmio in Bologna.

Description

319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans; 30 cm

Alternative Title

• Rinascimento urbano
• Urban renaissance
• Renaissance urbaine

Subject

• Architecture > Human factors > Europe > Exhibitions
• Architecture > Environmental aspects > Europe > Exhibitions
• Architecture > Europe > Forecasting > Exhibitions
• City planning > Europe > Forecasting > Exhibitions

Note

• On cover: "con introduzione di H.R.H. the Prince of Wales."
• "Bologna, A Vision of Europe, Il Triennale Internazionale di Architettura e Urbanistica, 22 Marzo - 30 Aprile 1996."
• Includes index.

Language (note)

• Italian, English and French.

Contents

The architecture that builds the city / Gabriele Tagliaventi -- Urban renaissance / Maurice Culot -- "A local habitation and a name..." / David Watkin -- Renewing the American city / Carroll William Westfall -- Reconstructing the European capital city -- Continuity of the classical tradition in the construction of the American capital city -- Continuing the construction of a bourgeois city -- Urbanizing the suburbs -- Extending the city with new urban quarters -- Founding new traditional cities -- Re-qualifying the urban space through the demolition of obsolete modernist buildings -- Constructing new traditional public buildings -- Reconquering the centre of the city -- Reconquering the sacred pace -- Revitalizing the garden city -- Healing the city.

ISBN

8880810545

OCLC

ocm34639641

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries