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1 Online-Ressource
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781350032187
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"City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords - play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Přez de Arce's erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground - from the hippodrome to the Situationist city - of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play. Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect's concerns with those of non-architects - and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone - architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike - a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references
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PART ONE -- 1. About the Field -- Spheres of action -- Field and stage -- The Canon -- The primeval -- Field and square -- Field, skin and precincts -- 2. Formal and Relational Traits -- Scale -- Topology -- Topography -- Symmetry -- Linear Perspective -- The informal and the formless -- 3. Material Attributes -- The Lawn -- Sand and Snow -- Water -- 4. Locational Attributes -- Orientation -- Adaptations -- Couplings and mosaics -- The unofficial -- Site specific play and the genius loci -- Park and fair -- PART TWO -- 1. Players / The Athlete -- Cells and arenas -- Bucolic deportments -- 2. The Child -- The sky -- The street -- Anywhere -- Tumuli -- Displacements -- Future imperfect -- Stillness and the miniature -- Oblique rapports -- Return to order -- 3. The Citizen -- The return of Homo Ludens -- Paideia ́s revenge -- CONCLUSION -- Futile Pursuits.
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Also issued in print
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350032170
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350032163
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350032156
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350032149
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Original
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350032149
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350032156
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Paperback version ISBN 9781350032163
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hardback version ISBN 9781350032170
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350032187
