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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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