Strangely familiar : narratives of architecture in the city /
Strangely familiar : narratives of architecture in the city /
edited by Iain Borden [and others].
- 96 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
Foreword -- Introduction: Narratives of Architecture in the City -- Contributors -- Lenin's Bust! Unlikely Allies in Wartime London -- Well-Placed Women: Spaces of the Women's Movement in Victorian London -- The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: On Spuistraat, Amsterdam -- "Industrious Females" & "Professional Beauties", or, Fine Articles for Sale in the Burlington Arcade -- Westway: Caught in the Speed Trap -- Venice Metro -- The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History -- Naples: The Emergent Archaic -- Sentences Upon Architecture -- The Visible Cities of Sao Paulo -- Elected by the Property Owners: Redefining City Government in Mid-Town Manhattan -- My Mother Lives Now in a Nursing Home -- Twice-Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times Square -- Beneath the Pavement, the Beach: Skateboarding, Architecture and the Urban Realm -- The Cafe: The Ultimate Bohemian Space -- Bibliography -- Manifestations -- Acknowledgments.
0415144183 9780415144186
95050629
Architecture and society
Architecture--Human factors
NA2543.S6 / S79 1996
720.103
Foreword -- Introduction: Narratives of Architecture in the City -- Contributors -- Lenin's Bust! Unlikely Allies in Wartime London -- Well-Placed Women: Spaces of the Women's Movement in Victorian London -- The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: On Spuistraat, Amsterdam -- "Industrious Females" & "Professional Beauties", or, Fine Articles for Sale in the Burlington Arcade -- Westway: Caught in the Speed Trap -- Venice Metro -- The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History -- Naples: The Emergent Archaic -- Sentences Upon Architecture -- The Visible Cities of Sao Paulo -- Elected by the Property Owners: Redefining City Government in Mid-Town Manhattan -- My Mother Lives Now in a Nursing Home -- Twice-Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times Square -- Beneath the Pavement, the Beach: Skateboarding, Architecture and the Urban Realm -- The Cafe: The Ultimate Bohemian Space -- Bibliography -- Manifestations -- Acknowledgments.
0415144183 9780415144186
95050629
Architecture and society
Architecture--Human factors
NA2543.S6 / S79 1996
720.103