Somewhere Over the Square: An Aerial Analysis of Urban Development

ISBN-13: 9781800794979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Catalin D. Constantin

Opis

This book offers a new way of looking at the geographical spaces occupied by urban squares. The photographs in this book show an aerial view of squares in a number of historical European cities. Famous squares in well-known cities across Europe, from Lisbon to Istanbul, are presented alongside lesser-known but no less interesting squares.

Spis treści

Contents: European Squares and their histories - Pienza, Italy: Piazza Pio II - Gubbio, Italy: Piazza Grande - Todi, Italy: Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Garibaldi - Vicenza, Italy: Piazza dei Signori, Piazza delle Biade, Piazza delle Erbe, Piazzetta Palladio - Brescia, Italy: Piazza Paolo VI, Piazza della Loggia - Pitigliano, Italy: Piazza San Gregorio VII - Arezzo, Italy: Piazza Grande - Città di Castello, Italy: Piazza Gabriotti, Piazza Matteotti - Lucca, Italy: Piazza dell'Anfiteatro - Bergamo, Italy: Piazza Vechia, Piazza Duomo - Orvieto, Italy: Piazza del Duomo - Assisi, Italy: Piazza del Comune - Marostica, Italy: Piazza Castello - Udine, Italy: Piazza della Libertà - Palmanova, Italy: Piazza Grande - Trieste, Italy: Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia - The Lives of European Squares - Venice, Italy: Piazza San Marco - Piran, Slovenia: Tartinijev trg - Ljubljana, Slovenia: Presernov trg, Mestni trg - Rovinj, Croatia: Trg Svete Eufemije, Trg G. Matteottija - Split, Croatia: Trg Peristil - Dubrovnik, Croatia: Trg Luza, Gunduliceva poljana - Zadar, Croatia: Trg Rimskog Foruma - Motovun, Croatia: Trg Andrea Antico - Trogir, Croatia: Trg Ivana Pavla II - Porec, Croatia: Trg Marafor, Trg Slobode - Sibenik, Croatia: Trg Republike Hrvatske - Kotor, Montenegro: Trg od Oruzja, Trg od Brasna, Pjaca Svetog Tripuna, Trg Sveti Luke - Herceg Novi, Montenegro: Trg Herceg Stjepana - Perast, Montenegro: Trg Sveti Nikole - Krusevo, Republic of North Macedonia: Cearshia - Etymologies - Istanbul, Turkey: Sultanahmet Meydani - Tbilisi, Georgia: Meidan Bazaar - Tbilisi, Georgia: Tavisuplebis Moedani - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bascarsija - Thessaloniki, Greece: Plateia Aristotelous - Kallarites, Greece: Plateia - Syrrako, Greece: Plateia - Vovousa, Greece: Plateia - The Squares of Aromanian Settlements from The Pindus Mountains, Greece - Sofia, Bulgaria: Ploshcead, Sveti Aleksandar Nevski - Tryavna, Bulgaria: Ploshchead, Kapitan Diado Nikola - Bucharest, Romania: Pia a Universita ii - Bra ov, Romania: Pia a Sfatului - Sibiu, Romania: Pia a Mare, Pia a Mica - Alba Iulia, Romania: Pia a Ceta ii - Timi oara, Romania: Pia a Unirii, Pia a Liberta ii, Pia a Victoriei - Tarnów, Poland: Rynek - Krakow, Poland: Rynek Glówny - Retz, Austria: Hauptplatz - Mikulov, Czech Republic: Námestí - Znojmo, Czech Republic: Masarykovo námestí, Horní námestí - Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic: Námestí Premysla Otakara II - Slavonice, Czech Republic: Námestí Míru, Horní námestí - Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic: Námestí Svornosti - Tábor, Czech Republic: Zizkovo námestí - Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic: Námestí Míru - Telc, Czech Republic: Námestí Zachariáse z Hradce - Stramberk, Czech Republic: Námestí - Pelhrimov, Czech Republic: Masarykovo námestí - Nový Jicín, Czech Republic: Masarykovo námestí - Kromeríz, Czech Republic: Velké námestí - Trebon, Czech Republic: Masarykovo námestí - Synoecism - Kosice, Slovakia: Hlavné námestie - Podolínec, Slovakia: Mariánske námestie - Bardejov, Slovakia: Radnicné námestie - Levoca, Slovakia: Námestie Majstra Pavla - Presov, Slovakia: Hlavná ulica - Passau, Germany: Domplatz - Wismar, Germany: Am Markt - Bremen, Germany: Marktplatz - Lüneburg, Germany: Platz Am Sande - Schwerin, Germany: Am Markt - Stralsund, Germany: Alter Markt, Neuer Markt - Wernigerode, Germany: Marktplatz - Short History of European Squares - Goslar, Germany: Marktplatz - Naarden, Netherlands: Markt - Elburg, Netherlands: Marktplatz - Bourtange, Netherlands: Marktplein - Amersfoort, Netherlands: Marktplein de Hof - Salamanca, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Valladolid, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Peñafiel, Spain: Plaza del Coso - Ávila, Spain: Plaza del Mercado Chico - Bilbao, Spain: Plaza Nueva - Chinchón, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Frías, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Plasencia, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Segovia, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Cáceres, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain: Plaza Mayor - Almeida, Portugal: Praça de São João - Tomar, Portugal: Praça da República - Óbidos, Portugal: Praça de Santa Maria - Lisbon, Portugal: Praça de D. Pedro IV - Lisbon, Portugal: Praça do Comércio - Lisbon, Portugal: Praça do Município - The Symbolic Square - Coimbra, Portugal: Praça 8 de Maio - Leiria, Portugal: Praça Francisco, Rodrigues Lobo - Elvas, Portugal: Praça da República.

O autorze

Catalin D. Constantin is a book publisher and anthropologist. He teaches Anthropology at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. His first PhD thesis, published in 2013, focused on everyday life in Romanian cities at the beginning of the 20th century. His second PhD, completed in 2014, a cultural and anthropological reading of urban squares of European cities, was awarded by the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism. It was the first time that the University of Architecture in Bucharest gave a PhD with the maximum grade to a person who is not an architect by profession.

Catalin has edited a number of literature collections and photography books dedicated to cultural heritage. For the books he edits, he often produces both text and graphics, considering the combination between these two components essential. Windows from Bucharest and their stories sold out in three weeks and reached 1st place in book sales in Romania.

He conducts anthropological field research in the Pindus Mountains of Greece, where he studies the communities of Vlachs, speakers of a neo-Latin idiom on the verge of extinction. For his research he received an honorary diploma from the Macedoromanian Cultural Association, on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of its founding.

He has received the medal of honor awarded by KulturForum Europa, a German Foundation founded by Vice-Chancellor Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

For over five years he has coordinated a series of weekly museum education conferences at the Sutu Palace in Bucharest, Bucharest City Museum.

He has also organized multiple photography exhibitions in Romania, Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Poland, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal.