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University of Pittsburgh Press A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London 18002000 History of the Urban Environment
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University of Pittsburgh Press Governing by Design
Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history, disputing the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looking to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Spectator and the Topographical City
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ME - Fordham University Press Wittgensteins House
Book SynopsisArguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, this book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases.Trade Review"This book opens new and unexpected vistas into the complex landscape - or perhaps I should say the complex architecture and spatiality - of Wittgenstein's philosophy. In that sense, it makes an important, dual contribution to the history of philosophy and to the history of modern architecture." -- -Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology " ... An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics." -Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics "Accessible...Brings forward the virtues of applied abstraction through keen and historical treatment of both the writings and the Stonborough project." -- -Tom Conley Harvard University "A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein's entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein's House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein's thought." -- -Bruce Clarke Texas Tech University " ... Reveals heretofore unseen and unsuspected edifying relations between architecture and philosophy and their distinctive ways of seeing and thinking." -Postmodern Culture "A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture." -wittgenstein-news.org
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Fordham University Press Wittgensteins House Language Space and
Book SynopsisArguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical position between Stonborough-Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy, this book demonstrates that Wittgenstein's practice of architecture constitutes a fundamental component in the development of his philosophy of language from its early to late phases.Trade Review"This book opens new and unexpected vistas into the complex landscape - or perhaps I should say the complex architecture and spatiality - of Wittgenstein's philosophy. In that sense, it makes an important, dual contribution to the history of philosophy and to the history of modern architecture." -- -Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology " ... An interesting and thought-provoking work, one that adds to the corpus of writings on Wittgenstein's ideas about architecture and aesthetics." -Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics "Accessible...Brings forward the virtues of applied abstraction through keen and historical treatment of both the writings and the Stonborough project." -- -Tom Conley Harvard University "A strikingly brilliant and lucid piece of work. Last shows how Wittgenstein's entanglements of philosophy and architecture become the necessary prologue to his accomplishment in the Investigations. Wittgenstein's House takes what is often considered a marginal or extraneous interlude in his work and demonstrates how it in fact forms the indispensable pivot of a major reorientation in Wittgenstein's thought." -- -Bruce Clarke Texas Tech University " ... Reveals heretofore unseen and unsuspected edifying relations between architecture and philosophy and their distinctive ways of seeing and thinking." -Postmodern Culture "A noteworthy synthesis of Wittgenstein's philosophy with the subject of architecture." -wittgenstein-news.org
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Fordham University Press The Routes Not Taken
Book SynopsisA history of unrealized plans to expand New York City’s rapid transit and commuter rail systems.Trade Review"The New York subway is a source of basic mobility in the world's greatest city, but there remains much to be learned about why it came to be and how it functions. Raskin has given us a book that places all of our factual and historical narratives in a much larger context-what might have been, what could have been, and, perhaps, what should have been." -- -Brian J. Cudahy A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways "In presenting lively...case studies of what he regards as the most important unbuilt lines, Mr. Raskin encourages his readers to think about the adaptable nature of the city." -Wall Street Journal "The Routes Not Taken is a fascinating look at what did not happen with the New York City subway system and why. Joseph Raskin provides detailed accounts of why several subway lines that have been long needed and desired-such as one in the northeast Bronx and one across Queens and Brooklyn-never got built. The stories are full of twists and turns as politicians, business interests, civic groups, transit advisors and engineers all argue over which line is needed, what the specifics of its route should be, and even if it should be done ahead of another line. The Routes Not Taken is engrossing but ultimately dispiriting. One comes away from reading Mr. Raskin's book with a sense of awe that New York City has a subway system of any kind and extent given the numerous competing forces that have cancelled each other out in the past." -- -Paul Shaw Author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story "Apart from sheer enjoyment, this book underscores how radically decisions about transit shape property values, commerce, neighborhoods, and people." -Choice Magazine "This is an extraordinary and magisterial book, the product of years of diligent research on a topic that has been almost completely ignored, but one central to the understanding of the evolution of New York City in the twentieth century." -- -Peter Eisenstadt author of Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing "Joseph B. Raskin's parents never owned a car, and so the New York subway system perhaps played an outsize role in shaping his worldview. In The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System (Fordham University Press), Mr. Raskin draws on this perspective to provide an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit. The first subway, the IRT from City Hall to West 145th Street, was built in four and a half years. That pace has rarely been equaled in the century since. Consider that the Second Avenue subway, the first segment of which is to open in 2016, was envisioned in 1929. Why were certain lines elevated - and later demolished - instead of buried? Mr. Raskin, the assistant director of government and community relations for New York City Transit, dusts off old blueprints of lines that were never built or never completed, explaining how the system shaped urban development and how political and economic forces conspired to create today's subways. If only the Transit Construction Commission's 1920 plan had been adopted: a $350 million, 20-year blueprint that would have provided a grid of subway lines covering all five boroughs and provided for a city with a population even bigger than today's." -- -Sam Roberts The New York TimesTable of ContentsContents 1. Building (and Not Building) New York City's Subway System 2. Sound to Shore - The Unbuilt Brooklyn Queens Crosstown Line 3. Why the No. 7 Line Stops in Flushing 4. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx - 1 5. Buy Land Now, Ride the Subway Later 6. Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street 7. To the City Limits and Beyond 8. The Battle of the Northeast Bronx - 2 9. Building the Line That Almost Never Was 10. Other Plans, Other Lines, Other Issues in the Postwar Years 11. What Happened to the Rest of the System??? Appendix 1. The 1944 Service Plan Appendix 2. The 1947 2nd Avenue Service Plan Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Counter Institution
Book SynopsisCounter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.
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University of Hawai'i Press Architecturalized Asia Mapping a Continent
Book SynopsisArchitecturalized Asia explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia's boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. The book consists of three sections. In Mapping Asia: Architectural Symbols from Medieval to Early Modern Periods, authors examine icons and symbols in maps and textual descriptions and other early evidence about Asian architecture. The second section, Conjugating Asia: The Long-Nineteenth Century and Its Impetus, explores the construction of the field of Asian architecture and the political imagination of Asian built environments in the nineteenth century. The third section, Manifesting Asia: Building the Continent with Architecture, addresses the physical realization of Asian geographic ideas within a set of specific local and regional contexts in the twentieth century. Regions
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection River Cities City Rivers
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Princeton University Press Authorship
Book SynopsisAuthorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture's cultural production? In Authorship, a cross-disciplinary group of designers and
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Architecture of First Societies
Book SynopsisStarting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment.Trade Review“This entry-level textbook will suit beginning students and general readers interested in architecture, anthropology, agricuulture, ecology, history and geography. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers.” (Choice, 1 May 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Part One: Foundations 1 Chapter 1: The Human World 3 Chapter 2: Late Pleistocene—Early Holocene Societies 49 Chapter 3: Savanna and Forest Peoples Today 87 Chapter 4: The Great Northern Continuum: Part I 117 Chapter 5: The Great Northern Continuum: Part II 151 Chapter 6: The Mound and Plaza Societies of the Americas 191 Chapter 7: Plants, Animals, and Rituals 225 Chapter 8: The First Agro-Pastoral Perspectives 263 Part Two: Transitions 297 Chapter 9: Village and Chiefdom Worlds 299 Chapter 10: Expansion into Europe 315 Chapter 11: Emergence of Central and South American Agriculture Societies 397 Chapter 12: Cattle-Tending Societies 451 Chapter 13: The World of Portable Architecture 477 Chapter 14: The Oceanic Horticultural Continuum 515 Chapter 15: African Transformations 549 Chapter 16: Agro-Centrism in North America 575 Coda: Encounters with Modernity 637 Index 643
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cranbrook Architecture
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Hive of Education: Reflections on a Model of Architectural Education Chapter 2 Evolution Over Revolution: Eliel Saarinen as Architect and Educator Chapter 3 Provoking the Outliers: Trajectories for the Near Future Drawn from the Enigmatic Past Chapter 4 ‘The Unmeasurable’: Lessons from Cranbrook Chapter 5 Schooling Fishy Knowledge Chapter 6 Postgraduate Architectural Education In Situ Chapter 7 Unprompted: Open-ended Investigations in the Choreography of Construction Chapter 8 Building A Dream: Fertile Ground for Social Good Chapter 9 Unbuilding and the Recovery of Craft in Architecture: Cranbrook Department of Architecture 1986–1996 Chapter 10 An Architecture of Marks: Reading Histories and Writing Futures Chapter 11 Methods of Inspiration: A Pedagogical Approach Based on Singularity Chapter 12 The Interior Within Hand's Reach: Tactile Proximity Chapter 13 Arrows: The Long Lines of Influence in Architecture Chapter 14 Forming Action: The Subject in the Object Chapter 15 The Agency of Making: An Anatomy of Practice-based Pedagogy Chapter 16 From Another Perspective – Adept and Apprentices: Contributors About Architectural Design
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John Wiley & Sons Inc California Dreaming
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction The Golden State: California's Architectural Soul Chapter 2 Backlot Suburbia: A California Story Chapter 3 Californian, The Third Way Chapter 4 Material Imageability: The Architecture of Façades and Envelopes Chapter 5 Printing the Picture Plane: Imaging Scales Up Chapter 6 California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future Chapter 7 Do Dream Landscapes Have Earthquakes? Chapter 8 Extra-disciplinary Dreams: Journeys Into the Foothills Chapter 9 The Picture and the Frame: Understanding a Contested Landscape Chapter 10 A Hands-on Conceptual Rigour: A Multi-scalar Approach Chapter 11 There's Something in the Air: Authorship, the Hand and the Machine Chapter 12 Housing the Unhoused: Los Angeles Architects Rise to the Challenge Chapter 13 Skin and Bones: Pushing the Event Horizon Chapter 14 In the Mood for Love: Chromophilia Unbound Chapter 15 From Another Perspective – Morphosis Modelling: A Golden Anniversary Contributors About Architectural Design
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WW Norton & Co Supertall
Book SynopsisThe global boom in skyscraperswhy it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and peopleTrade Review"Lighter concrete, faster elevators, and even faster-growing cities are part of the formula architect Stefan Al lays out in this foundational book. Rather than describing the latest supertall skyscrapers, he shows us what makes them possible and why cities and companies think they are necessary. Mixing personal experience, history lessons, and explanations of technology that are clear and simple, Al's book shows how and why a new generation of skyscrapers is now under construction around the world." -- Aaron Betsky, author of Architecture Matters"Stefan Al’s Supertall is a thoughtful inquiry into the new generation of skyscrapers, which are taller and more ubiquitous than their predecessors... There is a lot of rich history here, well and concisely told (and illustrated with superb line drawings, a refreshing change from the big, splashy photographs of coffee-table books)." -- Paul Goldberger - New York Times Book Review"The sheer volume of calculation required to build and keep [supertalls] aloft and functioning is astounding. Al...explains these esoteric technical challenges in lucid fashion...[T]he story of what’s come about in the age of the supertall is gripping." -- Anthony Paletta - The Wall Street Journal
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Roman Architecture
Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding of Roman architecture in the last 20 years. It serves as an indispensable teaching and reference work for English-speaking undergraduates and graduates.Trade Review"This comprehensive volume of almost 600 pages deserves praise. Its 25 chapters have a chronological as well as a thematic focus, and cover the broader Roman Empire as well as specific case studies." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 March 2015) "The Companion is an important study that opens up new avenues for discussion and consideration, challenges what is currently perceived to be the approved wisdom on Roman architecture and encourages a new approach to understanding the material culture of a society that remains evident and influential in our own." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) "Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." (Choice, 1 June 2013) "The line-up of contributers is extremley impressive, with most chapters written by the very scolors whose names immediately sprang to my own mind on seeing their titles" (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Contributors xiii Maps/General Images xviii Introduction 1 1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE 6 Jeffrey A. Becker 2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome 27 Penelope J.E. Davies 3. Creating Imperial Architecture 45 Inge Nielsen 4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian 63 Caroline K. Quenemoen 5. The Severan Period 82 Edmund V. Thomas 6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy 106 Emanuel Mayer 7. Architect and Patron 127 James C. Anderson, jr. 8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building 140 John R. Senseney 9. Materials and Techniques 157 Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich 10. Labor Force and Execution 193 Rabun Taylor 11. Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus 207 John W. Stamper 12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy 228 Tesse D. Stek 13. Fora 248 James F.D. Frakes 14. Funerary Cult and Architecture 264 Kathryn J. McDonnell 15. Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle 281 Hazel Dodge 16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae 299 Fikret K. Yegül 17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica 324 Roger B. Ulrich 18. Domus/Single Family House 342 John R. Clarke 19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces 363 Mantha Zarmakoupi 20. Romanization 381 Louise Revell 21. Streets and Facades 399 Ray Laurence 22. Vitruvius and his Influence 412 Ingrid D. Rowland 23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità 426 Genevieve S. Gessert 24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 446 Melanie Grunow Sobocinski 25. Conservation 462 William Aylward Glossary 480 References 501 Index 565
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino Understanding
Book SynopsisDrawing on notions of personal honor, manly vigor, and sophisticated craftsmanship, the games were a story that the Romans loved to tell themselves about themselves.Trade ReviewJust clear facts, clearly told. It is, in other words, a delight. -- Catherine Nixey The Times Jerry Toner's excellent new book provides the historical context for Ridley Scott's emperor-gladiator... Toner's wry comments and personal observations make this book a pleasure to read. -- Claire Holleran History Today Successful, and stimulating overview of a complex topic... ChoiceTable of ContentsPrologueThe Rhino DiesI. Commodus's Great GamesII. When in CommodianaIII. An Emperor Loves His PeopleIV. Feeding the MonsterV. Win the CrowdVI. How to Be a RomanEpilogue: Fighting BackAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Building Washington
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of how the nation's capital was built. In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everything needed to build the federal city would have to be brought in, including materials, skilled workers, architects, and engineers. It was a daunting task, and these American Founding Fathers intended to do it without congressional appropriation. Robert J. Kapsch's beautifully illustrated book chronicles the early planning and construction of our nation's capital. It shows how Washington, DC, was meant to be not only a government center but a great commercial hub for the receipt and transshipment of goods arriving through the Potomac Canal, then under construction. Picturesque plans would not be enough; the endeaTrade ReviewRich in period detail thanks to Kapsch's extensive use of original documents, drawings and illustrations, and cost data for context, Building Washington is a fascinating look at the creation of the seat of our democracy.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringKapsch, a historian of engineering, focuses principally on the decades between the passage of the Residence Act of 1790, which selected the site for the new nation's capital, and the repair and reconstruction efforts that followed the burning of public buildings by British troops in 1814. The narrative centers on the transition from an eighteenth-century mode of construction led by "gentleman planters" to one orchestrated by professionally trained "architect-engineers." Along the way, Kapsch examines the supply chains, building techniques, financial expedients, and political wrangling that went into making the city.—David Schley, Journal of Southern HistoryBuilding Washington is a meticulously detailed account of the early construction of the capital city . . . The work will provide a treasure trove for research specialists in engineering and construction practices of the early republic and an informative reference work for enthusiastic Washingtonians.—Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsTimelineAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. Pierre L’Enfant’s Two Plans for Executing the President’s Vision2. Financing the Federal City3. Constructing the Federal City4. Developing a Commercial Center5. Early Infrastructure and Transport Improvements6. Building Military Defenses for the CapitalPart II7. The First Public Building Campaign (1791-1802)8. The Second Public Building Campaign (1803-1811)9. The Third Public Building Campaign (1815-1824)10. Later Transportation ImprovementsEpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Year of Julius and Caesar
Book SynopsisHow Caesar's attack on Bibulus marked the beginning of the end of the Roman free state and the descent of the Republic into violence and civil war. The year 59 BCwhen Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus served as joint consulsmarked a major turning point in the history of the Roman Republic. It was a dramatic and momentous time of political intrigue, bloodshed, and murder, one that boasted some of the most famous personalities ever to grace the Roman historical stage. Arguing that this pivotal year demands extended study, Stefan G. Chrissanthos's The Year of Julius and Caesar is the first focused investigation of the period. Chrissanthos uses a single event as his centerpiece: the violent attack orchestrated by Caesar and the First Triumvirate on Bibulus and his followers in the Forum on April 4. Before that day, he reveals, 59 had been a typical year, one that provides valuable insight into Roman government and political gamesmanship. But the assault on Bibulus changTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMapsPrologue. Caesar and Bibulus: April 4, 59 BC/695 AUCI Caesar and Cato: 60 BC/694 AUCII Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus: 59 BC/695 AUCIII Clodius: 58 BC/696 AUC 00Epilogue. Transformation: 57-31 BC/697-723 AUCAppendixesA. The Roman Republican GovernmentB. Cast of CharactersC. ChronologyD. The Ancient EvidenceE. Dating of Events of the Year 59GlossaryNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Monument to Dynasty and Death
Book SynopsisGo behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman worlda paragon of Roman engineering prowess. Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles involving exotic beasts, elaborate executions of criminals, gladiatorial combats, and evenwhen floodedsmall-scale naval battles, the building itself was also a marvel. Rising to a height of approximately 15 stories and occupying an area of 6 acresmore than four times the size of a modern football fieldthe Colosseum was the largest of all amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. In A Monument to Dynasty and Death, Nathan T. Elkins tells the story of the Colosseum's construction under Vespasian, its dedication under Titus,Trade ReviewElkins' focus on the political and ideological importance of the Flavian amphitheater and the events it housed offers a valuable addition to the growing body of general audience resources on Rome's Colosseum.—Elisha Ann Dumser, University of Akron, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue. Opening Day at the Colosseum I. The Rise of a New Dynasty II. A Modern Amphitheater in Ancient RomeIII. An Amphitheater in the Heart of RomeIV. A Hundred Days of GamesV. The Colosseum and Its First Games in Flavian Art and LiteratureEpilogue. The End of the "Flavian" AmphitheaterAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Great Fire of Rome
Book SynopsisA thrilling and momentous account of the Great Fire of Rome and how a modern city arose from its embers. Peril was everywhere in ancient Rome, but the Great Fire of 64 CE was unlike anything the city had ever experienced. No building, no neighborhood, no person was safe from conflagration. When the fire finally subsidedafter burning for nine days straightvast swaths of Rome were in ruins. The greatest city of the ancient world had endured its greatest blow. In The Great Fire of Rome, Joseph J. Walsh tells the true story of this deadly episode in Rome's history. He explains why Rome was such a vulnerable tinderbox, outlines the difficulties of life in that exciting and dangerous city, and recounts the fire's aftermath and legacya legacy that includes the transformation of much of ancient Rome into a modern city. Situating the fire within the context of other perils that residents of Rome faced, including frequent flooding, pollution, crime, and dangerously shoddy construction, he highTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue I Perils of Life in Rome II Inferno III The Day After IV Neropolis V Legacy Appendix A. Sources Appendix B. Proposed Timeline of the Great Fire Notes Suggested Further Reading Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Broken Cities
Book SynopsisA comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement. We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studiesof classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico CityDevecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate or natural events. Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.Trade ReviewThe prose is very elegant and lucid, well suited for upper-level undergraduate classes pertinent to matters of pre modern urbanism and thus worth assigning.—Nathanel Andrade, Binghamton University (SUNY), The Classical OutlookTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Athens: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Ruins in Classical GreeceChapter 2. Rome: Ruins and Empire in the Late Antique WorldChapter 3. Baghdad: Postclassical Ruins and the Islamic CityscapeChapter 4. Tenochtitlan: Preservationism and Its Failures in Early Modern MexicoEpilogueNotesBibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Frederick Law Olmsted
Book SynopsisFull of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates. Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Coffee Table BookMaster landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (18221903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society. Lavishly illustrated with over 500 images, this book presents Olmsted's design commissions for a wide range of projects. The rich collection of studies, lithographs, paintings, and historical photographs depicts Olmsted's planning for residential communities, regional and town plans, academic campuses, grounds of public buildings, zoos, arboreta, and cemeteries. Focusing on living spaces designed to promote physical and mental well-being, the book showcases more than seventy of Olmsted's designs, including the community of Riverside, IL; theTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Residential CommunitiesChapter Two. Industrial AreasChapter Three. Regional and Town PlanningChapter Four. Private EstatesChapter Five. Academic CampusesChapter Six. Residential InstitutionsChapter Seven. Grounds of Government and Public BuildingsChapter Eight. ExpositionsChapter Nine. Summer CommunitiesChapter Ten. Resorts and HotelsChapter Eleven. Zoos and Arboreta Chapter Twelve. Cemeteries and MemorialsList of IllustrationsList of RepositoriesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington DC
Book SynopsisThe model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be.Mid-Atlantic CountryThis lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of peripheral sites, this thoroughly revised sixth edition features projects ranging from early federal landmarks to twenty-first-century commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. It includes some 80 new entries covering dozens of recently completed buildings, along with some historic structures that may have been overlooked in the past. The guide also has updated maps, and many existing entries have been rewritten to reflect recent renovations, changes to the buildings' contexts, or additional scholarship. G. Martin Moeller, Jr., blends informed, concise descriptions with engaging commentary on each landmark, revealing surprising details of the buildings'Trade ReviewLively and informative.Whether you are looking for a tour of must-see monuments or would like to discover emerging neighborhoods and their architectural gems, this book is the ultimate resource.—Travel by ENTREESince 2006, when the AIA published the fourth edition, the book's author has been G. Martin Moeller Jr., a genial and knowledgeable guide.Moeller's entries stray well beyond design, engineering and materials. He is interested in the larger story of Washington—its social, symbolic and political history. He is opinionated, though his opinions are eminently reasonable and often entertaining.Visitors (and residents) who want to discover a history far richer than the usual pieties of the double-decker tour bus will profit from time with this guide. Put it in your bag, take the Metro to a stop from which you have never alighted, and start walking. The lessons learned will be far richer than a stroll on the Mall or down Pennsylvania Avenue.—Philip Kennicott, Washington PostTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes to the ReaderIntroduction. The Architecture of Washington, DC, 1791–2021ToursA. Governmental Capitol HillB. The MallC. Near Southwest D. Capitol RiverfrontE. Residential Capitol HillF. NoMa / Union MarketG. Judiciary Square / Mount Vernon Square / Penn QuarterH. Pennsylvania AvenueI. Downtown—East EndJ. White House / Lafayette SquareK. Downtown—West EndL. Foggy BottomM. GeorgetownN. FoxhallO. Sheridan-Kalorama / Massachusetts Avenue HeightsP. Dupont/LoganQ. Shaw / U StreetR. Meridian HillS. Woodley Park / Cleveland Park / Van NessT. Other Buildings of InterestIndexPhoto Credits
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Temple University Press,U.S. Building a Social Contract
Book SynopsisThe dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and labored for. Michael McCulloch chronicles the efforts of employers, government agencies, and the building industry who, along with workers themselves, produced an unprecedented boom in housing construction that peaked in the mid-1920s. Through oral histories, letters, photographs, and period fiction, McCulloch traces wage earners’ agency in negotiating a new implicit social contract, one that rewarded hard work with upward mobility in modern houses. This promise reflected workers’ increased bargaining power but, at the same time, left them increasingly vulnerable to layoffs.Building a Social Contract focuses on Detroit, the quintessential city of the era, where migrant workers came and
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Temple University Press,U.S. Building a Social Contract
Book SynopsisThe dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and labored for. Michael McCulloch chronicles the efforts of employers, government agencies, and the building industry who, along with workers themselves, produced an unprecedented boom in housing construction that peaked in the mid-1920s. Through oral histories, letters, photographs, and period fiction, McCulloch traces wage earners’ agency in negotiating a new implicit social contract, one that rewarded hard work with upward mobility in modern houses. This promise reflected workers’ increased bargaining power but, at the same time, left them increasingly vulnerable to layoffs.Building a Social Contract focuses on Detroit, the quintessential city of the era, where migrant workers came and
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Building the Italian Renaissance Brunelleschis
Book SynopsisFocuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore - the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Column of Marcus Aurelius The Genesis and
Book SynopsisOne of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan. In this volume, Martin Beckmann makes a thorough study of the form, content, and meaning of this infrequently studied monument.
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University of Texas Press Millennials in Architecture
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the impact of the newest generation of architectswith a call for firms and educators to foster leadership in Millennials, tapping their innovative capacity to shape the twenty-first century.Table of Contents Part One: A Twenty-First-Century Generation 1. Introduction: Millennials, Architecture, and Disruption 2. Who Are the Millennials? 3. Generations in Historical Context: Generation X, Boomers, Silents, GIs 4. Working with Generational Theory 5. Architectural History by Generation Part Two: Challenges, Benefits, Vulnerabilities 6. Generational Alignment Strategies: Millennials, Generation X, Boomers, Silents 7. Collaboration: Millennial Values and the Work of Architecture 8. Anytime, Anywhere: Digital Natives and Nomads 9. An Accelerated Tempo: Millennial Time and Territory Part Three: Disruption, Innovation, Continuity 10. Medicine, Law, Architecture: Comparing the Professions 11. What’s Next? The Academy, Licensure, Practice Appendix I. Millennials in Architecture Survey Appendix II. NAAB-Accredited Program Enrollments 2007–2017 Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Improbable Metropolis
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated, Improbable Metropolis is one of the few books to use architecture and urban planning to explain the growth of a major world city, and the only one of its kind on Houston or any other city in Texas.Trade ReviewBradley conveys [the story of Houston through its buildings and places] in an even and accessible writing style...Improbable Metropolis is a visual treat...the book object would hold its own on any Houstonian’s coffee table. * Cite Magazine *Throughout Improbable Metropolis, Bradley intertwines Houston’s two dominant and diverging narratives of southern gentility and aggressive economic policies to reveal an often contradictory and yet incredible architectural history that challenges our assumptions about the generative principles of a metropolis. * ARRIS *[Improbable Metropolis] is big, beautiful and comprehensive...starting with the startling book jacket, which shows the downtown skyline from an unexpected angle at night, it is a feast for the eyes...I cannot imagine how much labor went into this magnificent book. * Austin American Statesman *Bradley has spent a lifetime dedicated to architecture, planning, and historic preservation in Houston and her encyclopedic knowledge of the city makes this ambitious work possible. The text is richly accompanied by a wealth of color maps and photographs that increase the depth of documentation...Improbable Metropolis provides further argument that Houston should not be treated as a regional subject, but one that reflects the central importance of private capital, rather than public planning, in shaping the modern American city. * Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum *Although Houston has been the fourth-largest city in the United States since 1969, it does not receive the scholarly attention from historians that its size deserves; Bradley’s handsome volume helps rectify this neglect...Bradley’s deep familiarity with her subject will enthrall lay readers and will inspire specialists to enrich Houston’s story by exploring numerous topics further. * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. Bayou City, 1830–1865 Chapter 2. Magnolia City, 1866–1899 Chapter 3. Progressive Houston, 1900–1919 Chapter 4. Energy Capital of the World, 1920–1939 Chapter 5. Golden Buckle of the Sunbelt, 1940–1959 Chapter 6. Space City, 1960–1979 Chapter 7. H-Town, 1980–1999 Chapter 8. Petro Metro, 2000–2017 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press In the Land of the Patriarchs
Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index
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University of Texas Press In the Land of the Patriarchs
Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Building Socialism
Book SynopsisChristina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.Trade Review“A triumph of interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship! Following a compelling new case of international ‘high-socialist’ architecture, Christina Schwenkel bridges the histories of and scholarship on Eastern European and Asian socialisms. The oft-maligned but poorly understood city of Vinh proves to be an unexpected center of international solidarity and a riveting example of human resilience. Its story offers a significant perspective on Vietnamese history, socialist internationalism, postwar reconstruction, post-socialism, neoliberal redevelopment, and urban history.” -- Erik Harms, author of * Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon *“In this extraordinary book, the anthropological and architectural histories of the city of Vinh emerge between the hour zero when B-52s fly over Vinh and the ebbing of obsolescence. Christina Schwenkel addresses urban space and design in an enlightening and unsettling manner, evoking and explaining the ‘building of socialism’ as both a Vietnamese and an East German phenomenon in its postcolonial and postmodern contexts.” -- Rudolf Mrázek, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan“Schwenkel explores the main built legacy of this alliance [between Vietnam and East Germany], the Quang Trung housing estate in Vinh.... The story she has to tell, and the research she has undertaken in several years living on the estate...[is] informative, surprising, and often very moving.” -- Owen Hatherley * Jacobin Magazine *“A model of transnational urban research, Building Socialism uncovers the history of Vinh’s role as a global planning hub, while also attending to the afterlife of socialist modernism for those residing in the city today." -- Katherine Zubovich * The Metropole *"Building Socialism is . . . an indispensable addition to our understanding of urban Asia." -- Abidin Kusno * Journal of Asian Studies *"The book offers a novel and broader understanding of the urban development projects in postwar Vietnam with its social and political trajectories aided by an impressive collection of archival material. . . . Altogether, Christina Schwenkel’s work is a refreshing and groundbreaking addition not only to the study of the global history of the GDR but, first and foremost, to the study of Vietnam’s building of socialism." -- Katrin Bahr * German Studies Review *"Exemplary scholarship. . . . The book's theoretical reflections challenge some calcified notions in current scholarship and intelligentsia, and show the incredibly similar housing experiences and cultural-imperialist tendencies of both capitalism and socialism." -- Esra Ackan * Berlin Journal *"Building Socialism is a remarkably illuminating transnational and interdisciplinary study of socialist nation building, examined through the lenses of internationalism, urban planning and architecture, and an ethnography of a mass housing estate. . . . The author very much succeeds in presenting a cohesive, theoretically rich work of in-depth investigation." -- Hazel Hahn * H-Urban *"Building Socialism is a captivating, imaginative, and significant contribution in anthropology, Vietnamese history, urban history, and history of urban planning. It is suitable for assigning in both graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses." -- Hazel Hahn * H-Urban, H-Net Reviews *"This engaging book ties together the legacies of the Vietnam War, East German urbanism, and contemporary neoliberal development to produce a narrative that is greater than the sum of its parts, shedding much-needed light on the complexity of modernism’s social and material durabilities." -- Samantha Maurer Fox * Anthropological Review *"Though somewhat theoretical, this book is ultimately accessible to a broad readership. It will be of most interest to scholars and students of urban planning, urban anthropology, and urban studies. Highly recommended. Lower division undergraduates through faculty; professionals" -- M. E. Pfeifer * Choice *"The book’s strength is that it expands our understanding of the multiplicity of urbanisms. . . . Building Socialism is an achievement that warrants the attention of every scholar interested in the urbanism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, well beyond Vietnam." -- Takanari Fujita * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Plates, and Tables vii Abbreviations xi A Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Ruination 1. Annihilation 25 Interlude. Urban Fragments 1 43 2. Evacuation 45 Interlude. Urban Fragments 76 3. Solidarity 78 Part 2. Reconstruction 4. Spirited Internationalism 105 Interlude. Urban Fragments 3 129 5. Rational Planning 131 Interlude. Urban Fragments 4 159 6. Utopian Housing 161 Part 3. Obsolescence 7. Indiscipline 211 8. Decay 232 9. Renovation 260 10. Revaluation 293 Conclusion. On the Future of Utopias Past 316 Notes 323 References 357 Index
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Duke University Press Architecture and Development
Book SynopsisAyala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa.Trade Review“A remarkable addition to the growing literature on the intrinsic plurality of global development experiences. Placing architectural expertise at the center of knowledge transfer between the newly-formed nation-states of Israel and on the African continent, Ayala Levin depicts state building as a parallel activity being undertaken by both provider and receiver of expertise, undoing received notions about ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ contexts. The sections comparing Israeli approaches toward kibbutzim at home and rural-urban migration patterns in Sierra Leone and Nigeria are nothing short of spectacular.” -- Arindam Dutta, author of * The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility *“In this rich and wonderfully detailed study, Ayala Levin provides a careful, learned, and multidisciplinary assessment of Israel’s architectural and developmental impact in Africa in which the characters and mindsets of Israeli architects and planners come alive. Scholars of Israeli-African relations, African development studies, African and Israeli architecture, and urban planning in the global South will find Levin’s exposé of Israeli-African geopolitics to be a valuable contribution.” -- Garth Myers, author of * Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South *“Levin takes the reader on a well-detailed and multifaceted journey.” -- Gabriel Schwake * Connections *"Architecture and Development provides far more than the sum of its case studies: this volume presents excellent scholarship. ... It significantly enriches our knowledge of Israeli and African planning and architecture. It critically reveals fascinating connections between national ideologies and international relations and provides new perspectives on global junctions of architecture culture and knowledge production." -- Inbal Ben Asher Gitler * Israel Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Settler Colonial Expertise in the Theater of Development 1 1. Fast-Tracking the Nation-State: The Design and Construction of the Sierra Leone Parliament 25 2. Rootedness and Open-Ended Planning: The Sierra Leone National Urbanization Plan 68 3. Planning a Postcolonial University Campus: The University of Ife, Nigeria 97 4. Designing the University of Ife: Climate, Regeneration, and Ornament 125 5. Israeli Aid, Private Entrepreneurship, and Architectural Education in Addis Ababa 165 Postscript. Ghosts of Modernity 195 Notes 219 Bibliography 269 Index 295
£75.65
Duke University Press Architecture and Development
Book SynopsisIn Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, Levin finds that Israel positioned itself as a developing-nation alternative in the competition over aid and influence between global North and global South. In analyses of the design and construction of prestigious governmental projects in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, Levin details how architects, planners, and a trade union--owned construction company staged Israel as a new center of nonaligned expertise. These actors and professionals paradoxically capitalized on their settler colonial experience in Palestine, refashioning it as an alternative to Western colonial expertise. Levin traces how Israel became involved in the modernization of governance, education, and agriculture in Trade Review“A remarkable addition to the growing literature on the intrinsic plurality of global development experiences. Placing architectural expertise at the center of knowledge transfer between the newly-formed nation-states of Israel and on the African continent, Ayala Levin depicts state building as a parallel activity being undertaken by both provider and receiver of expertise, undoing received notions about ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ contexts. The sections comparing Israeli approaches toward kibbutzim at home and rural-urban migration patterns in Sierra Leone and Nigeria are nothing short of spectacular.” -- Arindam Dutta, author of * The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility *“In this rich and wonderfully detailed study, Ayala Levin provides a careful, learned, and multidisciplinary assessment of Israel’s architectural and developmental impact in Africa in which the characters and mindsets of Israeli architects and planners come alive. Scholars of Israeli-African relations, African development studies, African and Israeli architecture, and urban planning in the global South will find Levin’s exposé of Israeli-African geopolitics to be a valuable contribution.” -- Garth Myers, author of * Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South *“Levin takes the reader on a well-detailed and multifaceted journey.” -- Gabriel Schwake * Connections *"Architecture and Development provides far more than the sum of its case studies: this volume presents excellent scholarship. ... It significantly enriches our knowledge of Israeli and African planning and architecture. It critically reveals fascinating connections between national ideologies and international relations and provides new perspectives on global junctions of architecture culture and knowledge production." -- Inbal Ben Asher Gitler * Israel Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Settler Colonial Expertise in the Theater of Development 1 1. Fast-Tracking the Nation-State: The Design and Construction of the Sierra Leone Parliament 25 2. Rootedness and Open-Ended Planning: The Sierra Leone National Urbanization Plan 68 3. Planning a Postcolonial University Campus: The University of Ife, Nigeria 97 4. Designing the University of Ife: Climate, Regeneration, and Ornament 125 5. Israeli Aid, Private Entrepreneurship, and Architectural Education in Addis Ababa 165 Postscript. Ghosts of Modernity 195 Notes 219 Bibliography 269 Index 295
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Duke University Press Architecture and the Right to Heal
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New York University Press The House of Serenos Part II
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the archaeology of the House of SerenosThe House of Serenos, Part II is the second of four books devoted to publishing the archaeology of the House of Serenos, a richly decorated, late antique villa of a local élite, located in Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The House of Serenos, Part II synthesizes the archaeological information presented in detail in other volumes in a comprehensive study of the architectural and archaeological history of the house and its relationship to its natural and built environments, from construction through expansion and renovation to its eventual abandonment around the end of the fourth century. The volume includes discussions of archaeological method, stratigraphy, architecture, and the archaeological assemblages discovered in the House of Serenosand reveals what all this can tell us about the inhabitants and their experience living in this high-status residence at the
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Cornell University Press Counterpreservation
Book SynopsisIn Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to understand this intentional appropriation of decrepitude. The embrace of decay is a sign of Berlin''s iconoclastic rebelliousness, but it has also been incorporated into the mainstream economy of tourism and development as part of the city''s countercultural cachet. Sandler presents the possibilities and shortcomings of counterpreservation as a dynamic force in Berlin and as a potential concept for other cities. Counterpreservation is part of Berlin''s fabric: in the city''s famed Hausprojekte (living projects) such as the Køpi, Tuntenhaus, and KA 86; in cultural centers such as the HaTrade ReviewSandler concludes with a brilliantly argued case for the worldwide significance of counterpreservation as a conceptual force that challenges the fundamental tenets of historic preservation as it is practiced in the West today. * Choice *Sandler imagines how architecture might grapple with the concept of transience, creating buildings that show the futility of hanging on to the past.... Any good contemporary reading of Berlin must come to grips with the city's relationship to its own decay. Sandler's accessible, smart book deserves a place on the reading list for the thoughtful kind of Berlin tourist, for student study abroad groups, and for those writing about the many rises and falls that have happened in the capital city of what has come to be known as 'The Berlin Republic.' * The German Quarterly *Sandler sees a categorical difference between counterpreservation and the fascination with ruins and ancient monuments inherent in some traditional conservationist approaches.... In general Sandler’s book stands out for her perspicacious perspective, which is also related to the fact that she looks at the city from the perspective of an outsider.... A must-read for any student or scholar interested in Berlin’s history and the fascinating ways in which the past manifests in the city’s urban fabric. * Planning Perspectives *Daniela Sandler presents rugged methods of stewardship and alteration of Berlin buildings that constitute a 'reflective nostalgia' instead of a 'restorative nostalgia,' revealing preservation as a productive practice with its own embedded political and cultural editorial power.... May spur the field to reconsider that very basic mode of always interrogating, sometimes appreciating, and often conserving heritage artifacts as we find them—which has long been called simply preservation. * buildings & landscapes *
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Cornell University Press Follies in America A History of Garden and Park
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis interdisciplinary look at the cultural and architectural history of follies in America is illustrated with examples with examples from literature, the arts, and the landscape itself. Carso gives us a broad sweep using the primary model for America, the eighteen-century English landscape garden. Less concerned with style, she grapples with the meaning of this building type, one that is at once 'recreational and amusing' but also 'didactic and enlightening. * Nineteenth Century *Follies in America delves into the history of the ornamental structures, or follies, that dotted, as some still do, many a private garden, public park, rural cemetery, or site of natural beauty in the nineteenthcentury United States * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The English Landscape Garden in America 2. Temples: Neoclassicism and the Nation 3. Summerhouses: Nature Meets Culture 4. Towers: The Belvedere and the Panoptic Sublime 5. Ruins: The Nineteenth-Century Delight in Decay Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Spatial Revolution
Book SynopsisSpatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929.Among the revelations provided by Christina E. Crawford is the degree to which outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex, while facing difficult topographies, near-impossible deadlines, and inchoate theories of socialist space-making. Crawford describes how early Soviet architecture and planning activities were kinetic and negotiated and how questions about the proper distribution of people and industry under socialism were posed and refined through the construction of brick and mortar, steel and concrete projects, Trade ReviewCrawford brilliantly showcases the materiality of the planning process. Her skills as licensed architect are on full display as she walks readers through planners' maps, travel notes, cartograms and similar documents, using these to produce a lived and practised genealogy of socialist design. * Contemporary European History *The contribution of Spatial Revolution to the history of socialism and Soviet architecture is remarkable for the scope of covered topics and the method chosen by its author. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *One can discern the outlines of a framework for the study of socialism that is not caught up in the tired paradigm of an oscillation between brilliant utopias and their mundane failures, but rather one that sees in the evolution of plans and meta-plans a version of the flexibility and adaptation often thought to be absent from state socialism. * Journal of Urban History *Christina Crawford's richly illustrated Spatial Revolution provides a fascinating view into the distinctive, experimental, often ad hoc, yet globally connected development of Soviet planning and housing strategies in the 1920s and 1930s. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Spatial Revolution is an expertly written and beautifully crafted book that reshapes conversations about early Soviet architecture and planning. The book is of interest not just to urban and architectural historians, but to scholars of the Soviet period broadly. * The Russian Review *Crawford's skillful handling of technical detail ensures that Spatial Revolution remains accessible for nonspecialists, allowing it to provide a valuable entry point into this area for scholars and students of cognate disciplines. Perhaps most important, the work highlights the fact that the lessons from these revolutionary efforts to materialize environments based on principles of livability, social equity, and sustainability have significant currency for us today. * Technology and Culture *Spatial Revolution examines the first fifteen years of Soviet architecture and planning in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv—three economically central cities where early socialist architecture and planning first took shape in the built environment. * The Russian Reviewer *Christina E. Crawford's rich and engaging new monograph, and its deep examination of the internal dynamics of Soviet urbanism — in particular, the way plans were framed, cultivated and put into practice — makes the existence of uniquely Soviet spatial politics clear. * SEER *SPATIAL REVOLUTION IS A PARALLEL STORY OF THEORETICAL debates and the physical realisation of socialist space-making in the early Soviet Union * Europe-Asia Studies *Crawford has produced an eloquently written and subtly argued book that willnd a wide audience among architecture historians, planning historians, urban historians, historians of the Soviet Union, and many others. * Journal of Planning History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Oil City: Baku, 1920–1927 1. Socialism Means Housing 2. From Garden Cities to Urban Superblocks 3. A Plan for the Proletariat Part II. Steel City: Magnitogorsk, 1929–1932 4. The Great Debate 5. Competition and Visions 6. Frankfurt on the Steppe Part III. Machine City: Kharkiv, 1930–1932 7. From Tractors to Territory 8. Socialist Urbanization through Standardization Conclusion
£26.99
Cornell University Press Chicago in Stone and Clay
Book SynopsisChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city''s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they''re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This unique geologist''s survey of Windy City neighborhoods demonstrates the fascinating and often surprising links between science, art, engineering, and urban history. Drawing on two decades of experience leading popular geology tours in Chicago, Raymond Wiggers crafted this book for readers ranging from the region''s large community of amateur naturalists, citizen scientists, and architecture buffs to geologists, architects, educators, and other professionals seeking a new perspective on the themes of architecture and urbanism. Unlike most geology and architecture books, Chicago in Stone and Clay is written in the informal, accessible style of a natural history tour guide, humanizing the science for the nonspecialist reader. Providing an exciting neTrade Review[Chicago in Stone and Clay] adds a fascinating new layer of history to your brain that will change the way you see the city. * Chicago Reader, Best Chicago Books of 2022 *As one who has had his eyes opened to the unexpected wonders to be found as the result of staring closely and intently as a stone wall, I very much hope that my readers will take the opportunity to investigate this handy new book, as well as – for those not in the Chicago area itself – to investigate their own local stone edifices to discover what geological surprises they may hold. * The Well-read Naturalist *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Fundamentals 1. Notes on the Book's Format, and Tips for Exploring Chicago's Geology 2. Chicago's Geologic Setting and History 3. The Geology of Building Materials 4. Foundations: Engineering in a Birthplace (And Worst Place) For Skyscrapers Part II: Exploring Chicago's Neighborhoods 5. The Loop: Northeastern Quadrant 6. The Loop: Southeastern Quadrant 7. The Loop: Southwestern Quadrant 8. The Loop: Northwestern Quadrant 9. Near West Side, Garfield Park, & Humboldt Park 10. South Loop, Museum Campus, Prairie Avenue, Douglas, & Bronzeville 11. McKinley Park, Back of the Yards, Kenwood, Washington Park, Hyde Park, Woodlawn, & Englewood 12. Auburn Gresham, South Shore, South Chicago, & Pullman 13. The Magnificent Mile & Streeterville 14. River North 15. The Gold Coast & Old Town 16. Logan Square, Lincoln Park, & Lake View 17. Uptown & Ravenswood 18. Edgewater, Rogers Park, & Sauganash
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University of Pennsylvania Press Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Book SynopsisCourts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into societies that, in turn, perceived and responded to these visions in often contrasting terms. Landscape both reflected and served as a vehicle for these transformations, as the relationship between the land and its imagination and consumption became a fruitful site for the negotiation of imperial identities within and beyond the precincts of the court. In Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World, contributors explore the role of landscape in the articulation and expression of imperial identity and the mediation of relationships between the court and its many audiences in the early modern world. Nine studies focused on the geographical areas of East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos. The collected essays expand the meaning and potential of landscape as a communicative medium in this period by putting an array of forms and subjects in dialogue with one another, including not only unique expressions, such as gardens, paintings, and manuscripts, but also the products of rapidly developing commercial technologies of reproduction, especially print. The volume invites a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the complexity with which early modern states constructed and deployed different modes of landscape for different audiences and environments. Contributors: Robert Batchelor, Seyed Mohammad Ali Emrani, John Finlay, Caroline Fowler, Katrina Grant, Finola O’Kane, Anton Schweizer, Larry Silver, Stephen H. Whiteman.
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University of Minnesota Press Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's
Book SynopsisA comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia, returned to the People’s Republic of China in 1999 after nearly half a millennium of Portuguese rule. Examining the unprecedented scale of its development and its key role in China’s economic revolution, Tim Simpson follows Macau’s emergence from historical obscurity to become the most profitable casino gaming locale in the world. Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and renowned for its unique blend of Chinese and Portuguese colonial-era architecture, contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including two of the world’s largest buildings. Simpson situates Macau’s origins as a strategic trading port and its ensuing history alongside the emergence of the global capitalist system, charting the massive influx of foreign investment, construction, and tourism in the past two decades that helped generate the territory’s enormous wealth. Presented through a cross section of postcolonial studies and social theory with extensive insight into the global gambling industry, Betting on Macau uncovers the various roots of the territory’s lucrative casino capitalism. In turn, its trenchant analysis provides a distinctive view into China’s broader project of urbanization, its post-Mao economic reforms, and the continued rise of its consumer culture. Trade Review "In this timely and impressive book, Tim Simpson charts the predicament of Macau—a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China—as a laboratory of consumption, and of planning and architecture as disciplinary technologies, all employed toward prototyping a scholastic program for the production and naturalization of commodity-driven social imaginaries in post-Mao China. A must-read for scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture, particularly those working in or studying urbanization in China."—Miodrag Mitrašinović, coeditor of The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion "Betting on Macau is a creative, engaging, wide-ranging, and insightful analysis that both dazzles the reader with a litany of the astonishing transformations Macau has undergone in the past two decades and provides a solid conceptual framework for understanding those changes in a world-historical context."—Cathryn H. Clayton, author of Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness "Presented through a cross section of postcolonial studies and social theory with extensive insight into the global gambling industry, Betting on Macau uncovers the various roots of the territory’s lucrative casino capitalism. In turn, its trenchant analysis provides a distinctive view into China’s broader project of urbanization, its post-Mao economic reforms, and the continued rise of its consumer culture."—Progressive Geographies "Betting on Macau is a worthy introduction to Macau and suitable for anyone, inside and outside academia, interested in a place of exception for Chinese gambling tourists."—Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change "Tim Simpson’s book is a timely contribution to a slender yet growing volume of works that have sought to reposition Macau within a cocktail of national, regional, and global themes."—Current History
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Modernism's Visible Hand: Architecture and
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of “room temperature”? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation—of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food—can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call “modern.”Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation—including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers—became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation’s unprecedented growth.Modernism’s Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today. Trade Review"Michael Osman weaves a complex web of interaction between architecture, science, and technology, as well as between architecture, business, and management. Modernism's Visible Hand is not only brilliant, it is also path-breaking."—Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence"Michael Osman takes us on an extraordinary journey through turn-of-the-twentieth-century modern American life, travelling from temperature-controlled homes and cold-storage warehouses, to Pennsylvania's factories and Indiana's sand dunes. This engrossing, brilliant book is an altogether new look at American architecture, technology, and everyday life; it will be of immense value to readers interested in all these subjects."—Daniel M. Abramson, author of Obsolescence: An Architectural HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Thermostatic Interior and Household Management2. Cold Storage and the Speculative Market of Preserved Assets3. Representing Regulation in Nature’s Economy4. Imaging Brainwork5. Regulation through Paperwork in Architectural PracticeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Heart of St. Paul: A History of the Pioneer and
Book SynopsisWhen the Pioneer Press Building opened its doors in 1889, it was news. The twelve-story skyscraper, the tallest at the time in the heart of St. Paul—featuring the first glass elevator in the country—merited a forty-page special edition of the Pioneer Press, whose editors modestly proclaimed it “the greatest newspaper building mother earth carries.” A year later, another architectural monument, the Endicott Complex—which wraps around the Pioneer Building—opened its doors. Designed by rising St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert, the Endicott included two office buildings linked by a one-story L-shaped shopping arcade crowned by a stained-glass ceiling. Journalist and architectural historian Larry Millett tells the story of these two icons of downtown St. Paul from conception through numerous alterations to their present incarnation as vibrant cultural and living spaces in the city’s center. He describes how the Pioneer came to be designed by noted Chicago architect Solon Beman, who in 1910 added four floors to create a sixteen-story light court that remains one of Minnesota’s great architectural spaces. Millett also describes Gilbert’s meticulous work in designing the Endicott complex, which was inspired by the Renaissance palaces of Florence. Gilbert would later go on to produce such masterpieces as the Minnesota State Capitol and the Woolworth Building in New York. As entertaining as it is edifying, Heart of St. Paul combines architectural history with the rich human story behind two buildings that have played a prominent role in the life of the city for over a century. The book includes an introduction by Kristin Makholm, Director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, which has found a new home in the buildings. Trade Review"If a building’s famous for its height or style, someone may tell its tale. If a building’s lucky, it gets Larry Millett. The Pioneer Endicott at 4th and Roberts streets in St. Paul is lucky."—Star Tribune"Millett explores more than the history and architecture of this St.Paul landmark, telling the human stories behind the buildings, from the architects to the tenants to the elevator operators."—Midwest Home
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University of Minnesota Press Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the
Book SynopsisAfter World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As Modernism as Memory illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror.While others have characterized contemporary Berlin’s museums and memorials as postmodern, Kathleen James-Chakraborty argues that these environments are examples of an “architecture of modern memory” that is much older, more complex, and historically contingent. She reveals that churches and museums repaired and designed before 1989 in Düren, Hanover, Munich, Neviges, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, and Weil am Rhein contributed to a modernist precedent for the relationship between German identity and the past developed since then in the Ruhr region and in Berlin. Modernism as Memory demonstrates that how one remembers can be detached from what one remembers, contrasting ruins with recollections of modernism to commemorate German suffering, the Holocaust, and the industrial revolution, as well as new spaces for Islam in the country.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making Memory Modern1. Making German Architecture Modern2. Inserting Memory into Modern Architecture: West German Churches3. An Architecture of Fragmentation and Absence: West German Museums4. Critical Reconstruction or Neo-Modernist Shards? Post-unification Berlin5. Manufacturing Memory in the Ruhr Region6. Assimilating Modern MemoryConclusion: The Kolumba Museum in CologneAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the
Book SynopsisAfter World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As Modernism as Memory illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror.While others have characterized contemporary Berlin’s museums and memorials as postmodern, Kathleen James-Chakraborty argues that these environments are examples of an “architecture of modern memory” that is much older, more complex, and historically contingent. She reveals that churches and museums repaired and designed before 1989 in Düren, Hanover, Munich, Neviges, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, and Weil am Rhein contributed to a modernist precedent for the relationship between German identity and the past developed since then in the Ruhr region and in Berlin. Modernism as Memory demonstrates that how one remembers can be detached from what one remembers, contrasting ruins with recollections of modernism to commemorate German suffering, the Holocaust, and the industrial revolution, as well as new spaces for Islam in the country.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making Memory Modern1. Making German Architecture Modern2. Inserting Memory into Modern Architecture: West German Churches3. An Architecture of Fragmentation and Absence: West German Museums4. Critical Reconstruction or Neo-Modernist Shards? Post-unification Berlin5. Manufacturing Memory in the Ruhr Region6. Assimilating Modern MemoryConclusion: The Kolumba Museum in CologneAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the
Book SynopsisHow photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified statehood and urbanity. Yet research on Berlin’s past has focused on the interwar years of the Weimar Republic or the Cold War era, with much less attention to the crucial Imperial years between 1871 and 1918. Constructing Imperial Berlin is the first book to critically assess, contextualize, and frame urban and architectural photographs of that era. Berlin, as it was pronounced Germany’s capital in 1871, was fraught with questions that had previously beset Paris and London. How was urban expansion and transformation to be absorbed? What was the city’s understanding of its comparably short history? Given this short history, how did it embody the idea of a capital? A key theme of this book is the close interrelation of the city’s rapid physical metamorphosis with repercussions on promotional and critical narratives, the emergence of groundbreaking photographic technologies, and novel forms of mass distribution. Providing a rare analysis of this significant formative era, Miriam Paeslack shows a city far more complex than the common clichés as a historical and aspiring place suggest. Imperial Berlin emerges as a modern metropolis, only half-heartedly inhibited by urban preservationist concerns and rather more akin to North American cities in their bold industrialization and competing urban expansions than to European counterparts.Trade Review"A late starter among European capitals, Imperial Berlin was eager to be recognized as a Weltstadt (‘World City’). Miriam Paeslack has carefully analyzed a trove of rarely seen images that perfectly document the city’s feverish development at the end of the nineteenth century and the parallel evolution of its self-conscious imagery. Taken together, the photographs present a compelling psychogram of the city on its way to becoming the 'Capital of the Twentieth Century'—the place where the dramatic tides of modernity and its traumatic conflicts would leave their most visible scars."—Dietrich Neumann, Brown University"Miriam Paeslack has written a compelling account of the multifarious ways in which photographers mediated in the construction of Berlin’s urban imaginary. She brilliantly demonstrates photography’s potency as Berlin contended with modernity by simultaneously promoting progress and inventing the past."—Nancy Stieber, University of Massachusetts, BostonTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Crafting the Metropolis: Photo-Panoramas in the Illustrated Journal Berliner Leben2. Framing Progress: Ludwig Hoffmann, Ernst von Brauchitsch, and Berlin Architectural Photography 1902–19123. Tracing Transformation: Berlin’s Urban Palimpsest in Photogrammetry and “Rubble Photography”4. Inventing Tradition: Berlin’s Märkische Museum and Its Photo Survey Picturesque BerlinConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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