Screen LibraryThe Venice variations : tracing the architectural imagination /
"From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability - how we imagine better urban environments - remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of di...
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UCL Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability - how we imagine better urban environments - remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city t |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781787352407 1787352404 9781787352414 1787352412 |
| Index Number: | DG674 |
| CLC: | TU984.546 |
| Call Number: | TU984.546/P974 |
| Contents: | Introduction: between authored architecture and the non-authored city -- City-craft: assembling the city -- Statecraft: a remarkably well-ordered society -- Story-craft: the imagination as combinatorial machine in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities -- Crafting architectural space: Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the three paradigms -- Venice variations: tracing the architectural imagination. |