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Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
Topic
Architecture
Country
Canada
City
Toronto
Subject
Architecture & Design
ISBN
9780802005380

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
0802005381
ISBN-13
9780802005380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
835732

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Boundaries of the City : the Architecture of Western Urbanism
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Architecture, Social Science
Author
Alan Waterhouse
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
10.5 in
Item Width
7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-162567
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
720/.94
Synopsis
In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and insecurities about crime, insurrection, and the violent disruption of everyday life. At the same time, contrary instincts aspire to create a unified domain, to proclaim the interdependence of things through constructed work. Cities are shaped less by rational design than by a recurring dialectic of boundary formation. These impulses underlie the formal vocabulary of architecture and urbanism. Waterhouse follows them through the theories, ideologies, and styles that seem to govern city buildings; he finds their presence in the creation of territorial divisions, and also wherever the cityscape has been shaped by a poetic imagination. Tracing his narrative of urban boundaries from antiquity to the birth of modernism, Waterhouse discovers some stubborn legacies that bind contemporary urban design to the past. Part One explores the boundary dialectic in our regard for deities, for nature, and for one another, and then as a powerful influence on architectural invention and our ways of life. Part Two traces these themes through city building history, to show how architecture and human relatedness are subordinated by boundary formation in the cycles of urbanization. , In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. , In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and insecurities about crime, insurrection, and the violent disruption of everyday life. At the same time, contrary instincts aspire to create a unified domain, to proclaim the interdependence of things through constructed work. Cities are shaped less by rational design than by a recurring dialectic of boundary formation.These impulses underlie the formal vocabulary of architecture and urbanism. Waterhouse follows them through the theories, ideologies, and styles that seem to govern city buildings; he finds their presence in the creation of territorial divisions, and also wherever the cityscape has been shaped by a poetic imagination.Tracing his narrative of urban boundaries from antiquity to the birth of modernism, Waterhouse discovers some stubborn legacies that bind contemporary urban design to the past. Part One explores the boundary dialectic in our regard for deities, for nature, and for one another, and then as a powerful influence on architectural invention and our ways of life. Part Two traces these themes through city building history, to show how architecture and human relatedness are subordinated by boundary formation in the cycles of urbanization."
LC Classification Number
NA9183.W38 1993

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