The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays

by Anthony Vidler

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Author(s)

Anthony Vidler

Publication, year

New York : The MOnacelli Press, 2011

Scope

368 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

9781580932707

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As a historian, Vidler’s concern here is to undertake a reflective and contextual analysis of how a wide spectrum of urbanistic ideas - ranging from psychogeography, surveillance and traffic networks to economics, social relations and socio-political notions of citizenry - have been given visual and spatial form in projects both built and unbuilt. As Vidler himself puts it, this is a history of the development of cities that might be considered as ‘the construction of social knowledge in space'. The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays thus overtly places and considers modern architecture in the context of urban planning, urban design and urbanism in general.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 6: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References