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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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