Building The City Of Spectacle
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Building The City Of Spectacle
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Author : Costas Spirou
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Building The City Of Spectacle written by Costas Spirou and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with Social Science categories.
By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty-two years at the helm of Chicago's City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the city’s history. Richard M. Daley was the son of the legendary machine boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley, who had presided over the city during the post–World War II urban crisis. Richard M. Daley led a period of economic restructuring after that difficult era by building a vibrant tourist economy. Costas Spirou and Dennis R. Judd focus on Richard M. Daley’s role in transforming Chicago’s economy and urban culture.The construction of the "city of spectacle" required that Daley deploy leadership and vision to remake Chicago’s image and physical infrastructure. He gained the resources and political power necessary for supporting an aggressive program of construction that focused on signature projects along the city’s lakefront, including especially Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Museum Campus, Northerly Island, Soldier Field, and two major expansions of McCormick Place, the city’s convention center. During this period Daley also presided over major residential construction in the Loop and in the surrounding neighborhoods, devoted millions of dollars to beautification efforts across the city, and increased the number of summer festivals and events across Grant Park. As a result of all these initiatives, the number of tourists visiting Chicago skyrocketed during the Daley years.Daley has been harshly criticized in some quarters for building a tourist-oriented economy and infrastructure at the expense of other priorities. Daley left his successor, Rahm Emanuel, with serious issues involving a long-standing pattern of police malfeasance, underfunded and uneven schools, inadequate housing opportunities, and intractable budgetary crises. Nevertheless, Spirou and Judd conclude, because Daley helped transform Chicago into a leading global city with an exceptional urban culture, he also left a positive imprint on the city that will endure for decades to come.
The Age Of Spectacle
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Author : Tom Dyckhoff
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-04-20
The Age Of Spectacle written by Tom Dyckhoff and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-20 with Architecture categories.
'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon 'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren Laverne In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing ‘bizarre’ new buildings in wacky shapes and colours. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single ‘iconic’ structure – with the hope of single-handedly transforming the region’s ailing fortunes. These incidents are all part of the same story: the rise of the age of spectacle. Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious – and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and cities’ inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and commercial power-grabs. Timely, passionate and bursting with new ideas, The Age of Spectacle is both an examination of how twenty-first century cities work, and a manifesto for a radically new kind of urbanism. Our cities, Dyckhoff shows, can thrive in the age of spectacle – but only if they engage us not just with dazzling structures, but by responding to the needs of the people who inhabit them. 'Engaging . . . The “iconic” building is the most obvious architectural phenomenon of our age yet, somehow, no one has quite done what Tom Dyckhoff does with The Age of Spectacle, which is to tell its story clearly and plainly.' Rowan Moore, Observer 'First class. Finally, a book that nails the iconic movement – Tom Dyckhoff’s The Age of Spectacle is the book that I wish I had written.' Simon Jenkins 'Unusually accessible [and] well argued.' Evening Standard
Terror And Wonder
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Author : Blair Kamin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-11
Terror And Wonder written by Blair Kamin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Architecture categories.
Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.
Re Using Ruins Public Building In The Cities Of The Late Antique West A D 300 600
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Author : Douglas R. Underwood
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Re Using Ruins Public Building In The Cities Of The Late Antique West A D 300 600 written by Douglas R. Underwood and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with History categories.
In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.
Architecture And Spectacle
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Author : Gevork Hartoonian
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012
Architecture And Spectacle written by Gevork Hartoonian and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of neo-avant-garde architecture. It discusses the spectacle and excess which permeates contemporary architecture in reference to the present aesthetic tendency for image making, but does so by applying the tectonic of theatricality discussed by the nineteenth-century German architect Gottfried Semper. In doing so, it breaks new ground by opening up a dialogue between the study of the past and the design of the present.
The Geopolitics Of Spectacle
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Author : Natalie Koch
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-15
The Geopolitics Of Spectacle written by Natalie Koch and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with History categories.
"Develops a geographic approach to the politics of spectacle and its unspectacular Others through examining recent spectacular capital city development projects in seven authoritarian, resource-rich states of Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Asia"--
City And Spectacle In Medieval Europe
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Author : Barbara Hanawalt
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1994
City And Spectacle In Medieval Europe written by Barbara Hanawalt and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Social Science categories.
Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.
The Dead City
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Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-30
The Dead City written by Paul Dobraszczyk and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Architecture categories.
The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.
Spectacle In The White City
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Author : Stanley Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Spectacle In The White City written by Stanley Appelbaum and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Photography categories.
A splendid tribute to The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in a sweeping landscape format. Includes essays and captions by a noted historian. 128 photographs.
Building
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Building written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Architecture categories.