Showing papers on "Urbanism published in 1989"

History of Italian architecture, 1944-1985

Abstract: A civil history, a political history, and a history of ideas are juxtaposed with a history of architecture in this indispensable reference work by one of today's most important historians and critics of architecture and urbanism. Manfredo Tafuri presents a sophisticated account of the origins and development of the movements and schools that have shaped Italian architecture and urban design since the Liberation.Tafuri takes into account the "father figures, " the importance of autobiography in architectural design, and the relevance of Italy's regional polarities. The work of the major protagonists - including Albini, Gardella, Samona, Ridolfi, Quaroni, the BPR, Scarpa, Rossi, Canella, Grassi, Gabetti and Isola - is set against the roles gradually assigned to the discipline, as well as against planning strategies and structural changes.Tafuri analyzes such recent tendencies in architecture and planning as concepts of place, context, modification, reweaving, the relationship between the invention and its surrounding conditions, and both typological and morphological continuity - used to address the needs created by the competition for economic and social resources in the major cities, including the regulatory programs of Florence and Bologna and the development projects for Rome, Milan, and Naples.Manfredo Tafuri is the Director of the Department of History of architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice. He is the author of "The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes" and "Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s, Architectura and Utopia and coauthor with Giorgio Ciucci, Francesco Dal Co, and Mario Manieri-Elia of "The American City, all published by The MIT Press.

Cliches of Urban Doom and Other Essays

Abstract: The Rejected Generation Uneasy Partnership Urban Sociology in Great Britain Urban Sociology Urban Growth Conflict in Cities Changing Urban Problems Urban Images Cliches of Urban Doom Stability and Strife London - Aspects of Change The Moods of London The Uncertainty of Immigrants The Ashes of Discontent Insiders-Outsiders Divided and Degraded.

Le fait urbain dans l'ancienne france : les petites villes de bourgogne au xviiieme siecle

Abstract: This thesis shows the reality of urban characteristics in very little towns and their originality with regard to big villages and market towns. The period choosen for it is the eighteenth century because, at that time, towns began to be defined by the number of their inhabitants (quantitative criterium) and not only by tradition (qualitative criterium). The study concerns little towns of the part of burgundy which conserves states and have a ferm political unit. After a general study of urban hierarchy in france, the research concerns economic functions which appears through fiscal lists, then, the group of "notables" inhabitants characteristic of towns and their personnal demand upon health and culture. It concerns also political and financial organisation of little towns and, at last, the proudness of the cities showed by architectural realisations and urbanism. In everyone of these themes urban characters appears clearly even when the population is weak (1800 or 2500 inhabitants). This prove the importance of little towns which is a typical and durable character of the french urban system.

The Suburban, the Modern and ‘une Dame de Passy’

Abstract: Despite the size and constant growth of the body of work on the concept of modernity and the modern city, there has been little discussion of an area of the city which was indubitably a site of modernity: the middle-class suburb. In this paper, I intend to consider the reasons for this omission; to examine one particular Paris suburb, Passy, in the sixteenth arrondissement; and to suggest that this suburb played a determining role in the production of Berthe Morisot, who lived there from the 1850s until her death in 1895. The many and substantially differing models of the city which have been proposed from perspectives as wide-ranging as geography, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and statistics share several characteristics: their focus is on the city centre as the site of real interest; they seldom engage with the concept of the city as gendered; and in consequence, they inevitably privilege the masculine. Ideas such as those of Georg Simmel in his article 'The Metropolis and Mental Life',2 often cited in the literature of art history, are characteristic of the emphasis that is placed on the city centre. Simmel's is an evolutionist view, in which the ultimate city is the one which is most heterogeneous, most fragmented, and in which the metropolis nourishes two forms of individualism, individual independence and the elaboration of individuality itself.3 His ideas were developed by later sociologists such as Louis Wirth, and have come to dominate the discourse of urbanism. Where the city is regarded, as it is in such frameworks, as heterogeneous, exciting, productive of and preserving greater individualism, and concerned with 'cultural' values, discussion about the suburb assumes an oppositional role: it is perceived as homogeneous, dull and philistine. As Linda McDowell has noted with particular reference to urban theory, this may be ascribed to the fact that:

Urbanism and Urbanity: Cities in an Urban-Dominated Society

Abstract: The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, arti...

Toward an Economico-Religious Model for Harappan Urbanism

Abstract: (1989). Toward an Economico-Religious Model for Harappan Urbanism. South Asian Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 49-58.