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Writing the city square : on the history and the histories of city squares / Martin Zerlang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerlang, Martin, 1952- author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in urbanism and the city
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plazas--History.
- Plazas.
- Plazas in literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Architecture and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Martin Zerlang is a full professor of literature and modern culture at the University of Copenhagen. During the last 15 years, he - together with architects and other urbanists - has participated in a number of architectural competitions and taken first prize in three of these. He has edited a collection of essays on Representing London, and has published articles in English on the Tivoli Gardens, the New York World Exposition 1853, and Israels Plads, a city square in Copenhagen. He has published several books on urban culture and urban literature, among these Zoom København (2017) and books on the bicycle (2018), the car (2021), and the train (2023) in Danish culture.
- Contents:
- General observations
- Historical types
- Representing modern squares
- Planners and modernisation
- Trends in the 20th century
- The political square.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Zerlang, Martin, 1952- Writing the city square
- ISBN:
- 9781003335825
- 1003335829
- 9781000865660
- 1000865665
- 9781000865707
- 1000865703
- Publisher Number:
- 40031721483
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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