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How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urbanism transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier's and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's humanisation of architecture and urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis' and Adriano Olivetti's role in reshaping the relationship between politics and urban planning, Giancarlo De Carlo's architecture of participation, Aldo Rossi's design methods, Denise Scott Brown's active socioplactics and Bernard Tschumi's spatial praxis.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Aesthetics. --- Architectural History. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Theory. --- Design. --- Spatial Planning. --- Urban Theory. --- Urbanism. --- Architecture. --- City planning.

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In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city's built environment, a meditation on the author's relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking. Exploring Los Angeles through the soles of his feet, Ulin gets at the experience of its street life, drawing from urban theory, pop culture, and literature. For readers interested in the culture of Los Angeles, this book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order to see, and engage with, the city on its own terms.

Streets --- Walking --- Pedestrianism --- Aerobic exercises --- Animal locomotion --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- Avenues --- Boulevards --- Thoroughfares --- Roads --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Description and travel. --- Description --- built environment. --- california streets. --- california urban landscapes. --- city life. --- city planning. --- crowded cities. --- culture of los angeles. --- exploring los angeles. --- history of los angeles. --- los angeles pop culture. --- los angeles street life. --- los angeles urban landscapes. --- los angeles. --- personal narrative. --- space and place. --- travel narratives. --- urban geography. --- urban landscapes. --- urban planning. --- urban space. --- urban studies. --- urban theory los angeles. --- urban theory. --- urban walking. --- urbanism.

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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The “passages” are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin’s later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin’s undertaking.

Benjamin, Walter --- Benjamin, W. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터, --- Frankfurt School. --- Marxism. --- Neo-Marxism. --- Paris. --- Weimar culture. --- cultural memory. --- historicism. --- literary theory. --- messianism. --- urban theory.

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This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, such as those in the field of architecture, urban design and planning, urban sociology, urban geography, archaeology, road engineering, and environmental psychology. Taking a didactical approach, the authors have structured each chapter to explain key concepts and show practical examples followed by underlying theory and provided exercises to facilitate learning in each chapter. The textbook gradually eases the reader into the fundamental concepts and leads them towards complex theories and applications. In summary, the general competencies gain after reading this book are: – to understand, explain, and discuss space syntax as a method and theory; – be capable of undertaking various space syntax analyses such as axial analysis, segment analysis, point depth analysis, or visibility analysis; – be able to apply space syntax for urban research and design practice; – be able to interpret and evaluate space syntax analysis results and embed these in a wider context; – be capable of producing new original work using space syntax. This holistic textbook functions as compulsory literature for spatial analysis courses where space syntax is part of the methods taught. Likewise, this space syntax book is useful for graduate students and researchers who want to do self-study. Furthermore, the book provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to understand and critically reflect on existing literature using space syntax.

Sociology --- Economics --- Materials sciences --- Production management --- Environmental planning --- Social geography --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- ruimtelijke ordening --- sociologie --- economie --- steden --- Aménagement urbain --- Urbanisme --- Économie régionale --- Aménagement du territoire --- Sociologie urbaine --- Regional & area planning --- Political economy --- Technical design --- Space Syntax --- Built Environment --- Urban Space --- Spatial Units --- Urban Theory

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Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader in English at University College London. Contributors: ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON, ELLIOT KENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS.

Literature and society --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- London (England) --- In literature. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Ardis Butterfield. --- Aristocracy. --- Chaucer. --- Commerce. --- Law. --- London poet. --- Medieval London. --- Urban context. --- Urban theory. --- Victorian period.