A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Clone City : Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture
Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. An Empty Vessel?: The Scottish City in Postmodern Space -- 2. Arbor Saeculorum: An Archaeology of Utopian Confrontation -- 3. Building a Democracy: A Reconciliation of People -- 4. Clydeforth: Conurbation In Landscape -- 5. Centres of Life: Eutopian Cities of Tomorrow -- 6. City Places- East and West -- 7. Conclusion: Monuments to the Future -- Notes -- List of Illustrations -- Index
Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It examines the pointers to possible solutions provided by history, and especially by the lessons of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Building on these examples, it sketches out ways in which a more socially organic and place-specific architecture can be reconciled with modernity's pressure of freedom and individuality and it shows how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.Integrates architecture and the built environment into mainstreamScottish cultural identity debates; introduces architectural issues to the wider Scottish publicThe first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architectureSets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical contextExamines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city
Clone City : Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture
Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. An Empty Vessel?: The Scottish City in Postmodern Space -- 2. Arbor Saeculorum: An Archaeology of Utopian Confrontation -- 3. Building a Democracy: A Reconciliation of People -- 4. Clydeforth: Conurbation In Landscape -- 5. Centres of Life: Eutopian Cities of Tomorrow -- 6. City Places- East and West -- 7. Conclusion: Monuments to the Future -- Notes -- List of Illustrations -- Index
Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It examines the pointers to possible solutions provided by history, and especially by the lessons of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Building on these examples, it sketches out ways in which a more socially organic and place-specific architecture can be reconciled with modernity's pressure of freedom and individuality and it shows how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.Integrates architecture and the built environment into mainstreamScottish cultural identity debates; introduces architectural issues to the wider Scottish publicThe first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architectureSets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical contextExamines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city
Clone City : Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Page, David (author)
2022
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Over 70 photographs
Book
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720/.9411/0904
Introduction: crisis and renewal of contemporary urban planning
| Online Contents | 2016
Introduction: crisis and renewal of contemporary urban planning
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2016