What Time Is This Place? txt
Kevin Lynch
- viii, 277 p. ill. ; 23 cm. book
Include index.
Bibliography: p. 248-257.
Contents : List of Illustrations vi -- Introduction : Time and Place 1 -- 1. Cities Transforming 3 -- 2. The Presence of the Past 29 -- 3. Alive Now 65 -- 4. The Future Preserved 90 -- 5. The Time Inside 117 -- 6. Boston Time 135 -- 7. Change Made Visible 163 -- 8. Managing Transitions 190 -- 9. Environmental Change and Social Change 215 -- 10. Some Policies for Changing Things 224 -- Appendix: Asking Questions 243 -- Bibliography 248 -- Illustration Credits 258 -- Index 260 --
List of Illustrations -- 1. Ralph Allen ' s house in Bath 10 -- 2. Rooftops of the Corridor , Bath 10 -- 3. Stoke-on-Trent from the air 14 -- 4. Broken crockery , Stoke – on - Trent 14 -- 5. Waste heap, Stoke – on - Trent 15 -- 6. Marl pit , Stoke biart 15 -- 7. The site of Ciudad Guayana , Venezuela 21 -- 8. Maps of Ciudad Guayana by its residents 22 , 23 -- 9. Metamorphosis of the Hotchkiss House , New Haven , Connecticut 33 -- 10. A garage occupies a church 34 -- 11. The two sites of the temple at Ise , Japan 34 -- 12. London Bridge in the Mohave Desert 45 -- 13. Lake Havasu City , Arizona , from the air 45 -- 14. Rome The theater of Pompey on the old map of 46 -- 15. Its mark on the Rome of today 46 – 16. Traces of a henge as cropmarks 47 -- 17. Obliterating old cropmarks 47 -- 18. Kwakiutl totem in decay 47 -- 19. Amateur archaeologists in California 48 -- 20. Inca stonework in Cuzco , Peru 58 -- 21. The first bogman 59 -- 22. Shaker chairs 59 -- 23. Time ball , Royal Observatory , Greenwich , England 68 -- 24. Memorial exhibition for Martin Luther King 85 -- 25. Playing in a dynamite box 85 -- 26. Kite festival 86 -- 27. An unfinished second floor in Athens 96 -- 28. Early phase of squatter settlement , Peru 96 -- 29. An office building " to be continued " and the breaching of a cornerstone 97 -- 30. An old tree anchors a settlement 111 -- 31. The race of time Dialo 129 -- 32-88 A walk down Washington Street in central Boston 135 - 162 -- 89 Balla ' s La Giornata dell ' Operaio 164 -- 90 Balla ' s sketches for Volo di Rondoni 165 -- 91 Marey ' s four - dimensional model of a flying gull 165 -- 92 Avebury village and Silbury Hill 169 -- 93 Fossil remains in a rural wall 172 -- 94 The sunken temple of Vespasian , Rome 172 -- 95 Contrasting views of the Piazza del Campo , Siena 175 -- 96 Farewell to the Florentine ghetto 179 -- 97 Oldenburg designs monuments to the tidal Thames 183 -- 98 The vibrating figures of Hans Jenney 188 -- 99 Waste heaps in a brickmaking pit 193 -- 100 A marquee announces the final showing 197 -- 101 Inhabitants revise a design by Le Corbusier 208 -- 102 The demonstration town in the Summer Palace at Peking 230 --