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A vision of Europe : rinascimento urbano = urban renaissance / a cura di Gabriele Tagliaventi.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Vision of Europe (2nd : 1996 : Bologna, Italy)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Europe--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- City planning.
- City planning--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Urban renewal--Europe--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Urban renewal.
- Urban renewal--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Urban beautification--Europe--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Urban beautification.
- Urban beautification--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- History.
- Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Rinascimento urbano
- Urban renaissance
- Place of Publication:
- Bologna : Grafis, [1996]
- Language Note:
- Italian, English, and French.
- Contents:
- The architecture that builds the city / Gabriele Tagliaventi
- Urban renaissance / Maurice Culot
- "A local habitation and a name ..." / David Watkin
- Renewing the American city / Carroll William Westfall
- Reconstructing the European capital city
- Continuity of the classical tradition in the construction of the American capital city
- Continuing the construction of a bourgeois city
- Urbanizing the suburbs
- Extending the city with new urban quarters
- Founding new traditional cities
- Re-qualifying the urban space through the demolition of obsolete modernist buildings
- Constructing new traditional public buildings
- Reconquering the centre of the city
- Reconquering the sacred pace
- Revitalizing the garden city
- Healing the city.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "II Esposizione triennale di architettura e urbanistica" held at the Centro San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Mar. 22-Apr. 30, 1996.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 8880810545
- OCLC:
- 34639641
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