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City Squares Of The World

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Author : Maria Teresa Feraboli
language : en
Publisher: White Star
Release Date : 2007

City Squares Of The World written by Maria Teresa Feraboli and has been published by White Star this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Travel categories.

Combining an authoritative text with hundreds of superb photographs, this richly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive survey of the historical development of the square from the 14th through the 21st century, ranging from the austere Gothic style to the harmonious proportions of the Renaissance, from the Baroque quest for the spectacular to the restraint of Neoclassicism, and from 19th-century to modern day urban planning.

City Squares

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Author : Catie Marron
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-04-12

City Squares written by Catie Marron and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with Travel categories.

In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history of some of the world’s most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by illustrations from equally distinguished photographers. Over half of the world’s citizens now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities is the square—the defining urban public space since the dawn of democracy in Ancient Greece. Each square stands for a larger theme in history: cultural, geopolitical, anthropological, or architectural, and each of the eighteen luminary writers has contributed his or her own innate talent, prodigious research, and local knowledge. Divided into three parts: Culture, Geopolitics, History, headlined by Michael Kimmelman, David Remnick, and George Packer, this significant anthology shows the city square in new light. Jehane Noujaim, award-winning filmmaker, takes the reader through her return to Tahrir Square during the 2011 protest; Rory Stewart, diplomat and author, chronicles a square in Kabul which has come and gone several times over five centuries; Ari Shavit describes the dramatic changes of central Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square; Rick Stengel, editor, author, and journalist, recounts the power of Mandela’s choice of the Grand Parade, Cape Town, a huge market square to speak to the world right after his release from twenty-seven years in prison; while award-winning journalist Gillian Tett explores the concept of the virtual square in the age of social media. This collection is an important lesson in history, a portrait of the world we live in today, as well as an exercise in thinking about the future. Evocative and compelling, City Squares will change the way you walk through a city. Contributors include: David Adjaye on Jemma e-Fnna, Marrakech • Anne Applebaum on Red Square, Moscow and Grand Market Square, Krakow • Chrystia Freeland on Euromaiden, Kiev • Adam Gopnik on Place des Vosges, Paris • Alma Guillermoprieto on Zocalo, Mexico City • Jehane Noujaim on Tahrir Square, Cairo • Evan Osnos on Tiananmen Square, Beijing • Andrew Roberts on Residential Squares, London • Elif Shafak on Taksim Square, Istanbul • Rebecca Skloot on American Town Squares • Ari Shavit on Rabin Square, Tel Aviv • Zadie Smith on the grand piazzas of Rome and Venice • Richard Stengel on Market Square, Grand Parade, Cape Town • Rory Stewart on Murad Khane, Kabul • Plus contributions by Gillian Tett, George Packer, David Remnick, and Michael Kimmelman; illustrations and photographs from renowned photographers, including: Thomas Struth, Philip Lorca di Corcia, and Josef Koudelka

City Squares

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Author : Catie Marron
language : en
Publisher: Harper
Release Date : 2016-04-12

City Squares written by Catie Marron and has been published by Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with Travel categories.

Writing The City Square

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Author : Martin Zerlang
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-03

Writing The City Square written by Martin Zerlang and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-03 with Science categories.

The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book. This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: Literature uses the city square as a frame; city squares serve as frames for drama; novels and other kinds of literature comment on city squares; city squares are sources of inspiration for all sorts of literary activities. Socrates in the agora, Cicero in the Forum, Calderón in the Plaza Mayor, Corneille in the Place Royale, Richardson in Grosvenor Square, James in Washington Square, Woolf in Bloomsbury Square, Döblin and Gröschner in Alexanderplatz, Rodoreda in Diamond Square in Barcelona, DeLillo in Times Square, Al Aswany in Tahrir Square, the Maidanistas in the Maidan of Kyiv: These are just some of the examples presented and analyzed in this book. The book is of direct interest for researchers, students, and professionals such as architects and urban planners, but it is written in a way that makes it accessible for all readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, literature, and cultural studies.

Urban Squares As Places Links And Displays

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Author : Jon Lang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15

Urban Squares As Places Links And Displays written by Jon Lang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Architecture categories.

To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities – including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds, the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many others squares are simply a place to pause for a moment. Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures discusses how people experience squares and the nature of the people who use them. It presents a ‘typology of squares’ based on the dimensions of ownership, the square’s instrumental functions, and a series of their basic physical attributes including size, degree of enclosure, configuration and organization of the space within them and finally based on their aesthetic attributes – their meanings. Twenty case studies illustrate what works and what does not work in different cities around the world. It discusses the qualities of lively squares and quieter, more restorative places as well as what contributes to making urban squares less desirable as destinations for the general public. The book closes with the policy implications, stressing the importance and difficulties of designing good public places. Urban Squares offers how-to guidance along with a strong theoretical framework making it ideal for architects, city planners and landscape architects working on the design and upgrade of squares.

Today S Main City Squares

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Author : Saskia Commandeur
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2010-04

Today S Main City Squares written by Saskia Commandeur and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with categories.

City squares can be found in most North-western European cities; these open spaces are publicly accessible and have a role as civic meeting place. Some squares are more important than others; they form the main place of interaction in the centre of the city and, therefore, are referred to as 'main city squares'. While we are walking through a city, sitting at a terrace, looking at the shopping windows, or just standing still, we observe the atmosphere of the place. However, not every square that has a central role in the city is a successful main square per se. Is there a link between the pleasantness of a main city square and the age or shape of the city centre? But what is, then, the role of city squares in today's society and what makes these squares more or less successful? These are questions that will be dealt with in this book.

The City Square

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Author : Michael Webb
language : en
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Release Date : 1990

The City Square written by Michael Webb and has been published by Watson-Guptill Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Architecture categories.

Great Public Squares

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Author : Robert F. Gatje
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010

Great Public Squares written by Robert F. Gatje and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.

Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.

City Parks

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Author : Catie Marron
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-10-15

City Parks written by Catie Marron and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.

Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Andrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio; André Aciman muses on time’s fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line; Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto; Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama’s 2008 victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park; Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan; and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. Oberto Gili’s color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers’ unique and personal voices. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place. Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time’s passage.

Squares

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Author : Sophie Wolfrum
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2014-12-05

Squares written by Sophie Wolfrum and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Architecture categories.

The question of composition and spatial qualities arises in every urban design concept or intervention in the spatial structure of urban public squares. How are the essential elements involved: dimension, proportion, alignment, cohesion, accesses, shaping of focus point and of edges like surfaces and materials? How do they contribute to a character of urban space with which residents can identify? Comparing historical examples with current designs aids one in visualizing spatial effect. Similar to a floor plan manual for buildings, Squares allows the user to evaluate spatial conditions for movement and rest based on comparable existing urban squares. The book offers the planner a comparative example for most conditions (shape, size, location, topography, and so on). Seventy European urban squares are presented and explained with the most important characteristics in a consistent manner in as-built plan, ground plan, section, and axonometric projection.

City Squares Of The World

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