Urban Visions : Experiencing and Envisioning the City

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spier, Steven.

Contributor:

Spier, Steven, Contributor.

Series:

Tate Liverpool critical forum ; 5

Tate Liverpool critical forum ; v.v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns in art.

City and town life.

City planning.

Urban ecology.

Cities and towns in art--Social aspects--Congresses.

City and town life--Congresses.

City planning--Congresses.

Local Subjects:

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns in art.

City and town life.

City planning.

Urban ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of what kind of city we are trying to have is an urgent one as the world continues its dramatic urbanisation. Urban Visions presumes that an understanding of our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what the city could be. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions offers a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city's necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be. The book is illustrated in full colour.

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1: Reading the City: Between Memory-image and Distorted Topography; 2: No Place for a Lady; 3: Photo Portfolio: Thomas Struth; 4: New York City, 1910-35; 5: Las Vegas at Middle Age; 6: Wish You Were Here; 7: Mess is More; 8: The New Centre; 9: The Permanent Side; 10: 'The Map is not the Territory'; 11: Extract from 'Max Ferber' in The Emigrants

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-84631-433-X

OCLC:

476209977