City Halls and Civic Materialism

Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space. Sprachen: Englisch. 24,6 cm / 17,5 cm / 2,0 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 332 Seiten
EAN 9780415819008
Veröffentlicht März 2014
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis

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Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts

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Swati Chattopadhyay is a Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (2005), and Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012). Jeremy White is an architect and a lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the politics of planning in 1930s Los Angeles, titled "Constructing the Invisible City: Planning and Politics of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles."

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Foreword by Laura Kolbe Introduction 1. City Halls: Civic Representation and Public Space by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White 2. "A Laudable Pride in the Whole of Us": City Halls and Civic Materialism by Mary P. Ryan 3. Communicating Civic or National Pride? The City Hall as Communal "Hotel" in Scandinavian Capital Cities by Laura Kolbe 4. Rebuilding City Halls in Post-war Germany: Architectural Form and Identity by Jeffry M. Diefendorf 5. Old Town Hall in Prague: An Unresolved Architectural Challenge by Veronika Knotková and Hana Svatošová 6. Town Halls in Australia: Sites of Conflict and Consensus by Jenny Gregory 7. Courting the Council: Popular Petitioning and the Municipal Palace in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1930 by Christina M. Jiménez 8. The Bombay Town Hall: Engaging the Function and Quality of Public Space, 1811-1918 by Preeti Chopra 9. Los Angeles City Hall: Space, Form and Gesture by Jeremy White 10. Politics, Planning, and Subjection: Anti-colonial Nationalism and Public Space in Calcutta by Swati Chattopadhyay 11. Transformation of Public Space in Fascist Italy by Lucy Maulsby 12. Moving Beyond Colonialism: Town Halls and Sub-Saharan Africa's Postcolonial Capitals by Garth A. Myers 13. Jakarta's City Hall: A Political History by Abidin Kusno 14. Seoul Spectacle: the City Hall, the Plaza, and the Public by Hong Kal Epilogue Index.

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