Streets
Critical Perspectives on Public Space
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 1994
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-520-08550-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, 14th-century Cairo, 19th-century New Orleans, and 20th-century Tokyo. Focusing on individual streets around the world and from different historical periods, the collection is an inviting overview of the street as an urban institution. The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is an investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08550-3 (9780520085503)
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Persons
Zeynep Celik is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Diane Favro is Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Ingersoll is Associate Professor of Architecture, Rice University.
Content
ESSAYS BY:
Annmarie Adams Nezar AlSayyad
Eleni Bastea
Charles Burroughs Greg Castillo
Zeynep Celik
Joan Draper
Diane Favro
Paul Groth
Heng Chye Kiang
Krystyna von Henneburg
Richard Ingersoll
Richard Longstreth
Jean-Pierre Protzen
John Howland Rowe
Deborah Robbins
Bruce Thomas
Stephen Tobriner
Marc Treib
Dell Upton
Gwendolyn Wright
Fikret K. Yeguel
Annmarie Adams Nezar AlSayyad
Eleni Bastea
Charles Burroughs Greg Castillo
Zeynep Celik
Joan Draper
Diane Favro
Paul Groth
Heng Chye Kiang
Krystyna von Henneburg
Richard Ingersoll
Richard Longstreth
Jean-Pierre Protzen
John Howland Rowe
Deborah Robbins
Bruce Thomas
Stephen Tobriner
Marc Treib
Dell Upton
Gwendolyn Wright
Fikret K. Yeguel