02032nam a22003137a 4500 213687 213687 pucpr 20200313115240.0 121109s1997 maua b 001 0 eng 97000663 0262181800 hc : alk. paper 9780262681056 pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET NA9053.S6 R69 1997 711/.4 21 Rowe, Peter G. 271708 Civic realism / Peter G. Rowe. txt Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1997 255 p. ill. 23 cm. book rdacontent txt text rdamedia n unmediaded rdacarrier nc volume Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-[242]) and index. "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. Public spaces 154945 Local Architecture and state 54084 Local City planning 73701 Local 6 NA9053.S69 lcc General R69 1997 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2009-09-08 amazon 27.00 442018 0 General NA9053.S6 R69 1997 91000000002402 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 37.00 2009-09-08 6