Intimate metropolis [ urban subjects in the modern city

Questions traditional conceptualizations of 'public' and 'private, ' and illuminates the ways in which the modern metropolis can be seen as a peculiarly intimate construction, with its notion of the public predicated ultimately on a concept of the private individual or autonomous...

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Main Authors: Di Palma, Vittoria (Author), Lathouri, Marina (Author), Periton, Diana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2009
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Urban life -- 3. Heads: Philip-Lorca di Corcia and the paradox of urban portraiture -- 4. A space for the imagination: depicting women readers in the nineteenth-century city -- 5. "So the fla?neur goes for a walk in his room": interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis -- 6. Exhibitionism: John Soane's "model house" -- 7. Private house, public house: Victor Horta's ubiquitous domesticity -- 8. Drawing and dispute: the strategies of the Berlin block -- 9. "The necessity of the plan": visions of individuality and collective intimacies -- 10. City is house and house is city: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the architecture of homecoming -- 11. Urban play: intimate space and postwar subjectivity -- 12. Pervasive intimacy: the Unite? d'habitation and Golden Lane as instruments of postwar domesticity -- 13. Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy 
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