A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization
Abstract In 2014, I traveled to St. Petersburg to have yet another look at Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad). I had been there in 1959, when people in Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia called the city Leningrad; in 1996, when people in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia had renamed it St. Petersburg, and in 2004, when it was Vladimir Putin’s beloved jewel of a city. As I had done each time before, I climbed to the top of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to photograph the city from above. There, looking at the spire of the Admiralty, I understood how and why a great public realm provides a physical framework for urbanization.
Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization
Abstract In 2014, I traveled to St. Petersburg to have yet another look at Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad). I had been there in 1959, when people in Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia called the city Leningrad; in 1996, when people in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia had renamed it St. Petersburg, and in 2004, when it was Vladimir Putin’s beloved jewel of a city. As I had done each time before, I climbed to the top of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to photograph the city from above. There, looking at the spire of the Admiralty, I understood how and why a great public realm provides a physical framework for urbanization.
Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization
Heinberg, Richard (author)
What Makes a Great City ; 125-156
2016-01-01
32 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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