The scenes of the street and other essays / Anthony Vidler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vidler, Anthony.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--France--History--19th century.

City planning.

City planning--France--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

History.

France.

Architecture and society--France--History--19th century.

Architecture and society--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

368 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, [2011]

Contents:

The scenes of the street : transformations in ideal and reality, 1750-1871

Transparency and utopia : constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault

Architecture, management, and morals : the design of a factory community at the end of the eighteenth century

Mercier as urbanist : the utopia of the real

The paradoxes of vandalism : Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian discourse on historical monuments

Building the urban book : Nodier in the library

X marks the spot : the obelisk in space

Paris démoli/Paris futur

The new industrial world : the reconstruction of urban utopia in late-nineteenth-century France

The modern acropolis : Tony Garnier from La cité antique to Une cité industrielle

The idea of unity and Le Corbusier's urban form

The space of history : modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier

Photourbanism : planning the city from above and below

Unknown lands : Guy Debord and the cartographies of a landscape to be invented

Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

1580932703

9781580932707

OCLC:

426793555

Publisher Number:

99947774140