Research Catalog

Title

Urban visions : experiencing and envisioning the city / edited by Steven Spier.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Spier, Steven
• Tate Gallery Liverpool

Description

261 p. : ill. (some col.); 22 cm.

Summary

The modern city that was initiated by the great, violent forces unleashed by the industrialisation of Europe in the late eighteenth century is the city we still inhabit today: not so much in its physical form, but in the condition and sometimes affliction of being urban. The question of what kind of city we are trying to have is an urgent one as the world continues its dramatic urbanisation. Urban Visions presumes that an understanding of our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what the city could be. The contemporary city is a place of contested ownership and authorship. This book accepts that visions, which are currently more articulate in disciplines and media other than architecture and planning, need not always be utopian, heroic or grand. But our experience of the city does occur in something material that is designed - be it by architects, planners, or more often and anonymously larger societal or cultural forces. It is an intricate construction in which physical, cultural, commerical, historical, ideological and personal presences can coincide. The city must embrace, and its representations must reflect, the wealth or possible experiences of it. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions offers a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city's necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be. -- From cover flap.

Series Statement

Tate Liverpool critical forum ; 5

Uniform Title

Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forum v. 5.

Subject

• City and town life > Congresses
• Cities and towns in art > Congresses
• City planning > Social aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Anne MacPhee, Elisa Oliver -- Introduction / Steven Spier -- Reading the city: between memory-image and distorted topography ; Ingeborg Bachmann's essays on Rome (1955) and Berlin (1964) / Sigrid Weigel -- No place for a lady: women artists and urban prostitution in the Weimar Republic / Marsha Meskimmon -- Photo portfolio: Thomas Struth / Anne MacPhee -- New York City, 1910-35: the politics and aesthetics of two modernities / Thomas Bender -- Las Vegas at middle age / Paul Davies -- Wish you were here / Malcolm Miles -- Mess is more / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown -- The new centre: architecture and urban planning in the capital of the German Democratic Republic / Jörn Düwel -- The permanent side: wishful thinking about the city of the telematic age -- The map is not the territory: the unfinished journey of the Situationist International / Andrew Hussey -- Extract from 'Max Ferber', in The emigrants / W.G. Sebald.

ISBN

085323664X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002483330

OCLC

• 42791070
• SCSB-10194528

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library