Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City

ISBN-13: 9780415415064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Di Palma, Vittoria

Opis

Explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.

Spis treści

Introduction Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri  1. Urban Life Diana Periton  2. Heads: Philip-Lorca diCorcia and the Paradox of Urban Portraiture Hugh Campbell  3. A Space for the Imagination: Depicting Women Readers in the Nineteenth-Century City Kathryn Brown  4. ‘So the Flâneur Goes For a Walk In His Room": Interior, Arcade, Cinema, Metropolis Charles Rice  5. Exhibitionism: John Soane’s ‘Model House’ Helene Furján  6. Private House, Public House: Victor Horta’s Ubiquitous Domesticity Amy Kulper  7. Drawing and Dispute: The Strategies of the Berlin Block Katharina Borsi  8. ‘The Necessity of the Plan’: Visions of Individuality and Collective Intimacies Marina Lathouri  9. City is House and House is City: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the Architecture of Homecoming Karin Jaschke  10. Urban Play: Intimate Space and Postwar Subjectivity Roy Kozlovsky  11. Pervasive Intimacy: The Unité d’Habitation and Golden Lane as Instruments of Postwar Domesticity Christopher Hight  12. Zoom: Google Earth and Global Intimacy Vittoria Di Palma