01880nam a22002777a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001500064020003300079020001800112040003400130050002400164082001500188100001900203245004100222264004300263300003100306336002600337337002800363338002700391504006600418520103400484650002501518650003401543650002501577pucpr20200313115240.0121109s1997    maua     b    001 0 eng    a 97000663   a0262181800 qhc : alk. paper  a9780262681056  apucprbengerdacpucprdpucpr00aNA9053.S6bR69 199700a711/.42211 aRowe, Peter G.10aCivic realism /cPeter G. Rowe.htxt  aCambridge, Mass. : bMIT Press, c1997  a255 p.bill.c23 cm.fbook  2rdacontentbtxtatext  2rdamediabnaunmediaded  2rdacarrierbncavolume  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 230-[242]) and index.  a	
"A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society." "Topics covered in the book include the role of the state and civil society in the construction of civic spaces, aesthetic and architectural dimensions of realism, individual and collective uses of urban space, and how civic places constitute as well as represent the civic aspects of our lives. The examples, mostly from the modern period, include recent public spaces in Barcelona, several of the Grand Projects in Paris, neorealist projects in postwar Rome, contemporary transformations of the Manhattan grid, and Plecnik's water axis in prewar Ljubljana."--Jacket. 0aPublic spaces2Local 0aArchitecture and state2Local 0aCity planning2Local