TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rossi,Aldo
AU  - Eisenman,Peter
ED  - Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
ED  - Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
TI  - The architecture of the city
T2  - Oppositions books
SN  - 0262181010
AV  - NA9031. R6713 1982
U1  - 711.4 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - Architecture
N1  - Translation of: L'architettura della città; "Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, New York."; First paperback printed 1984; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City --; 1; The Structure of Urban Artifacts --; The Individuality of Urban Artifacts --; The Urban Artifact as a Work of Art --; Typological Questions --; Critique of Naive Functionalism --; Problems of Classification --; The Complexity of Urban Artifacts --; Monuments and the Theory of Permanences --; 2; Primary Elements and the Concept of Area --; The Study Area --; Residential Districts as Study Areas --; The Individual Dwelling --; The Typological Problem of Housing in Berlin --; Garden City and Ville Radieuse --; Primary Elements --; The Dynamic of Urban Elements --; The Ancient City --; Processes of Transformation --; Geography and History: the Human Creation --; 3; The Individuality of Urban Artifacts --; Architecture --; The Locus Architecture as Science --; Urban Ecology and Psychology --; How Urban Elements Become Defined --; The Roman Forum --; Monuments --; Summary of the Critique of the Concept of Context --; The City as History --; The Collective Memory --; Athens --; 4; The Evolution of Urban Artifacts --; The City as Field of Application for Various Forces --; Economics --; The Thesis of Maurice Halbwachs --; Further Considerations on the Nature of Expropriations --; Land Ownership --; The Housing Problem --; The Urban Scale --; Politics as Choice
ER  -