The City Assembled : the elements of urban form through history. / Spiro Kostof; with the collaboration of Greg Castillo; original drawings by Richard Tobias. txt

Por:

Kostof, Spiro

London : New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd , 2005Descripción: 320 p. ill. ; 25 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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volume

ISBN:

0500281726
9780500281727

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Clasificación LoC:

HT111 K62 1992

Contenidos:

CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 7 -- 1 THE CITY EDGE 11 -- PRELIMINARIES 11 -- THE Customs Boundary 12 -- The Multiple Edge 15 -- THE WALLED EDGE 26 -- Alternative Boundaries 26 -- The Nature Of City Walls 28 -- The Fringe Belt 34 -- City Gates 36 -- Mural Traces 38 -- MEETING THE WATER 39 -- River Town 39 -- Ports and Resorts 41 -- ON THE PERIPHERY 47 -- Early Suburbs 47 -- Planned Extensions 49 -- Industrial Extremities 51 -- THE OPEN CITY 54 -- Controls at the Fringe 55 -- THE SOFT EDGE OF SUBURBIA 59 -- Transportation and the City Edge 59 -- A Spectrum of Suburbs 62 -- Edge Cities 67 -- 2 Urban Divisions 71 -- INTRODUCTION 71 -- THE SOVEREIGN DISTRICT 74 -- Prince, Courtiers, and People 74 -- A Site for the Princely Residence 75 -- Changing the Course of State 78 -- Democracy and Socialism 80 -- GOD IN THE CITY 82 -- God vs King 82 -- Temple and Temenos 86 -- God among Neighbors 87 -- The Christian Parish 88 -- The Contest of Religion 90 -- The Separation of Church and State 91 -- PAGUS MERCATORIUM 92 -- Market Towns 92 -- Hosting Foreign Merchants 93 -- The Market and the State 94 -- The environment of Trade 96 -- The Case of Islam 99 -- The Business District of Capitalism 99 -- KEEPING APART 102 -- Barriers Visible and Invisible 104 -- Cultural Separation 106 -- The Modern Colonial City 110 -- Economic Segregation 117 -- 3 PUBLIC PLACES 123 -- THE NATURE OF PUBLIC PLACES 123 -- The Life and Control of the Public 124 -- Privatized Public Realms 125 -- Courtyard and Square 127 -- THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC PLACES 130 -- At the City Edge 130 -- Town Squares 130 -- Multiple Systems 134 -- MATTERS OF SIZE 136 -- Disencumbering 138 -- Totalitarian Scales 141 -- TYPOLOGIES 144 -- The Frame and the People 144 -- The Classifiers 146 -- Shapes of Squares 149 -- A Book of Uses 152 -- PUBLIC PARKS 164 -- A Backward Look 166 -- The Modern Park 169 -- THE PUBLIC PLACES OF TODAY 172 -- 4 THE STREET 189 -- INTRODUCTION 189 -- Historical Notes 190 -- Private Streets 192 -- THE STREET AS PUBLIC SPACE 194 -- The Theatre of Power 195 -- Culture and Class 198 -- The Regulated Street 200 -- Sidewalks and Paving 209 -- THE DESIGN OF STRETS 213 -- The Building Line 214 --- Porticoes and Porches 216 -- SOME STREET TYPES 218 -- Waterways 218 -- The Bridge Street 225 -- The Boulevard 228 -- Covered Streets 230 -- THE ADVENT OF THE MODERNIST STREET 231 -- Unwin and Le Corbusier 231 -- Precedents Technological and Social 234 -- Compromising Modernism: Early Experiments 235 -- Elevating the Pedestrian 237 -- The Return of the Street 239 -- 5 URBAN PROCESS 245 -- THE FALL AND RISE OF CITIES 245 -- London and Lisbon 245 -- Urban Longevity 250 -- DISASTERS AND THEIR AFTERMATHS 251 -- Straying Put 251 -- Urban Conflagration 252 -- Earthquakes, Floods, and Hurricanes 253 -- THE DESTRUCTION OF OF WAR 254 -- Damnatio Memoriae 254 -- Saks, Light and Through 257 -- The Second World War 258 -- Reconstruction 260 -- HAUSSMANNIZATION 266 -- Public Utility and the Law 267 -- The Taking of Property 269 -- Haussmann Outside Europe 273 -- Urban Renewal Western Style 275 -- INCREMENTAL CHANGES 279 -- The “Medievalizing” of Rome 279 -- “Organic” Changes 290 -- Urban Infill 292 -- Burgage Plots 294 -- The American Case 296 -- PROCESS AGAINST CONSERVATION: THE LIFE OF URBAN FORM 298 -- Notes 306 -- Bibliography 311 -- Acknowledgments for Illustrations 314 -- Index 315 --

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The City Assembled is a unique history of the elements of cities. It takes its place alongside Kostof's previous book The City Shaped as an essential text for town planners and urban designers.

Kostof follows the evolution of city components to modern times, discussing the effect of natural disasters like the Great Fire of London and the Lisbon earthquake, war and comprehensive redevelopment, compared with traditional patterns of growth and change. Over 300 drawings, prints, paintings and photographs help to tell the story from the colonnaded streets of ancient Palmyra to shopping malls and gentrified London squares.

Both a classic study in architectural and social history and a pointer to the future, The City Assembled is a fitting testament to Professor Kostof's wide-ranging intellectual powers.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 311-313.

CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 7 --
1 THE CITY EDGE 11 --
PRELIMINARIES 11 --
THE Customs Boundary 12 --
The Multiple Edge 15 --
THE WALLED EDGE 26 --
Alternative Boundaries 26 --
The Nature Of City Walls 28 --
The Fringe Belt 34 --
City Gates 36 --
Mural Traces 38 --
MEETING THE WATER 39 --
River Town 39 --
Ports and Resorts 41 --
ON THE PERIPHERY 47 --
Early Suburbs 47 --
Planned Extensions 49 --
Industrial Extremities 51 --
THE OPEN CITY 54 --
Controls at the Fringe 55 --
THE SOFT EDGE OF SUBURBIA 59 --
Transportation and the City Edge 59 --
A Spectrum of Suburbs 62 --
Edge Cities 67 --
2 Urban Divisions 71 --
INTRODUCTION 71 --
THE SOVEREIGN DISTRICT 74 --
Prince, Courtiers, and People 74 --
A Site for the Princely Residence 75 --
Changing the Course of State 78 --
Democracy and Socialism 80 --
GOD IN THE CITY 82 --
God vs King 82 --
Temple and Temenos 86 --
God among Neighbors 87 --
The Christian Parish 88 --
The Contest of Religion 90 --
The Separation of Church and State 91 --
PAGUS MERCATORIUM 92 --
Market Towns 92 --
Hosting Foreign Merchants 93 --
The Market and the State 94 --
The environment of Trade 96 --
The Case of Islam 99 --
The Business District of Capitalism 99 --
KEEPING APART 102 --
Barriers Visible and Invisible 104 --
Cultural Separation 106 --
The Modern Colonial City 110 --
Economic Segregation 117 --
3 PUBLIC PLACES 123 --
THE NATURE OF PUBLIC PLACES 123 --
The Life and Control of the Public 124 --
Privatized Public Realms 125 --
Courtyard and Square 127 --
THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC PLACES 130 --
At the City Edge 130 --
Town Squares 130 --
Multiple Systems 134 --
MATTERS OF SIZE 136 --
Disencumbering 138 --
Totalitarian Scales 141 --
TYPOLOGIES 144 --
The Frame and the People 144 --
The Classifiers 146 --
Shapes of Squares 149 --
A Book of Uses 152 --
PUBLIC PARKS 164 --
A Backward Look 166 --
The Modern Park 169 --
THE PUBLIC PLACES OF TODAY 172 --
4 THE STREET 189 --
INTRODUCTION 189 --
Historical Notes 190 --
Private Streets 192 --
THE STREET AS PUBLIC SPACE 194 --
The Theatre of Power 195 --
Culture and Class 198 --
The Regulated Street 200 --
Sidewalks and Paving 209 --
THE DESIGN OF STRETS 213 --
The Building Line 214 ---
Porticoes and Porches 216 --
SOME STREET TYPES 218 --
Waterways 218 --
The Bridge Street 225 --
The Boulevard 228 --
Covered Streets 230 --
THE ADVENT OF THE MODERNIST STREET 231 --
Unwin and Le Corbusier 231 --
Precedents Technological and Social 234 --
Compromising Modernism: Early Experiments 235 --
Elevating the Pedestrian 237 --
The Return of the Street 239 --
5 URBAN PROCESS 245 --
THE FALL AND RISE OF CITIES 245 --
London and Lisbon 245 --
Urban Longevity 250 --
DISASTERS AND THEIR AFTERMATHS 251 --
Straying Put 251 --
Urban Conflagration 252 --
Earthquakes, Floods, and Hurricanes 253 --
THE DESTRUCTION OF OF WAR 254 --
Damnatio Memoriae 254 --
Saks, Light and Through 257 --
The Second World War 258 --
Reconstruction 260 --
HAUSSMANNIZATION 266 --
Public Utility and the Law 267 --
The Taking of Property 269 --
Haussmann Outside Europe 273 --
Urban Renewal Western Style 275 --
INCREMENTAL CHANGES 279 --
The “Medievalizing” of Rome 279 --
“Organic” Changes 290 --
Urban Infill 292 --
Burgage Plots 294 --
The American Case 296 --
PROCESS AGAINST CONSERVATION: THE LIFE OF URBAN FORM 298 --
Notes 306 --
Bibliography 311 --
Acknowledgments for Illustrations 314 --
Index 315 --

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Library Journal Review

This final book by noted architectural historian Kostof, who died in 1991, is a companion to The City Shaped ( LJ 10/1/91; LJ's Best Books of 1991, LJ 1/92, p. 56). Here he considers the parts that make up the city through time--walls, urban divisions, public places, the street, and the urban process. The book is wide-ranging in time and space and presents the fruits of a lifetime of looking, but it is fragmented, appearing to be almost an assembly of notes for a more considered work or for The City Shaped . Still, the author is an astute observer, and his remarks are frequently illuminating for specialists and novices alike. This survey of the microparts of cities will be of interest primarily to professionals and historians but also to urban inhabitants, the same audience addressed by William Whyte ( City: Rediscovering Its Center , LJ 2/1/89).-- Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Spiro Konstantine Kostof was a leading architectural historian, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely read and many are routinely used in collegiate courses on architectural history.

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