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Urban Design in Western Europe : Regime and Architecture, 900-1900 by Wolfgang Braunfels (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226071790
ISBN-139780226071794
eBay Product ID (ePID)81463
Product Key Features
Number of Pages422 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameUrban Design in Western Europe : Regime and Architecture, 900-1900
Publication Year1990
SubjectBuildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional, History / General, Sociology / Urban
TypeTextbook
AuthorWolfgang Braunfels
Subject AreaArchitecture, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight22.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal711/.4/094
Table Of ContentTranslator's Note Preface Introduction 1. CATHEDRAL CITIES Cologne Trier Ecclesiastical Cities of the 10th and 11th Centuries Halberstadt Hildesheim Bamberg Cathedral Cities of the High Middle Ages 2. CITY-STATES The Tuscan City-States The Florentine Republic Pisa, Pistoia, Lucca Siena Florence as the Seat of a Princely Court The Swiss Cantonal Capitals: Zürich and Bern 3. SEA POWERS Venice and Amsterdam Contrasted Venice Lübeck Amsterdam Manhattan 4. IMPERIAL CITIES Self-representation as Self-interpretation Cathedral Ciites as Imperial Cities Regensburg Augsburg Nuremberg as a Model City Ulm and the Small Swabian Imperial Cities Esslingen Reutlingen Rothenburg Ulm Imperial Residence and Imperial City Aachen Goslar Frankfurt 5. IDEAL CITIES Aigues-Mortes and Richelieu Terre Murate or Basides Star-shaped Fortifications of the Baroque Calais and Valletta Urbanization of the Swedish Baltic Empire City Plan and the Order of Salvation 6. SEATS OF A PRINCELY COURT Early Forms in the 15th and 16th Centuries Turin Munich Berlin as the Seat of a Princely Court Dresden and Nancy Episcopal Seats in the Holy Roman Empire Salzburg Würzburg Versailles Potsdam St. Petersburg 7. CAPITAL CITIES Prague Vienna: The Conflict Paris as a Model City London 8. THE SECOND AND THIRD ROME The Second Rome The Vatican as Seat of Government The Opening Up of the City and Its Hills The Papal Squares The Capitol as Political Utopia Epilogue: The Unplannable Notes Credits Index
SynopsisWhat makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city's personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of cities--cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial cities--and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.
LC Classification NumberNA9183.B7213 1997
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