City as a work of art : London, Paris, Vienna
Olsen, Donald J.
City as a work of art : London, Paris, Vienna - New Haven,London etc Yale Uni. Press 1986 - xiii,341p.
CONTENTS Preface ix THE CITY AS LUXURY 1. Urban Virtue and Urban Beauty 3 THE CITY AS MONUMENT 2. The Monumental Impulse 9 3. The Remaking of London 12 The Vision of Splendor, 1811-1825 o Disillusion and Disgust, 1825-1837 o The Victorian Alternative 4. The New Paris 35 Paris before Haussmann o Paris Remade, 1852-1870 o Paris after Haussmann, 1870-1914 5 The Vienna of Franz Joseph 58 Vienna in 1857 o The Creation of the Ringstrasse 6. The Process of Urban Embellishment 82 THE CITY AS HOME 7. The Building and the Dwelling 89 The Family and the Individual o London o Paris o Vienna 8. Inside the Dwelling 101 The Public and the Private o The London House o The Paris Flat o The Viennese Wohnung 9. Social Geography 132 The Town as a Map of Society o London o Paris o Vienna 10. Villa Suburbia 159 London o Paris o Vienna 11. Working-Class Housing: Scarcity, Abundance, and Domestic Values 178 THE CITY AS PLAYGROUND 12. London: Hidden Pleasures 189 13. Paris: The Garden and the Street 210 14. Vienna: Display and Self-Representation 235 THE CITY AS DOCUMENT 15. Architecture as Historical Evidence 251 16. The Beautiful 254 In Search of a Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic o London o Paris o Vienna 17. Architecture as Language: Representation and Instruction 281 18. The City as the Embodiment of History 295 Notes 313 Bibliography 329 Index 337
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City as a work of art : London, Paris, Vienna - New Haven,London etc Yale Uni. Press 1986 - xiii,341p.
CONTENTS Preface ix THE CITY AS LUXURY 1. Urban Virtue and Urban Beauty 3 THE CITY AS MONUMENT 2. The Monumental Impulse 9 3. The Remaking of London 12 The Vision of Splendor, 1811-1825 o Disillusion and Disgust, 1825-1837 o The Victorian Alternative 4. The New Paris 35 Paris before Haussmann o Paris Remade, 1852-1870 o Paris after Haussmann, 1870-1914 5 The Vienna of Franz Joseph 58 Vienna in 1857 o The Creation of the Ringstrasse 6. The Process of Urban Embellishment 82 THE CITY AS HOME 7. The Building and the Dwelling 89 The Family and the Individual o London o Paris o Vienna 8. Inside the Dwelling 101 The Public and the Private o The London House o The Paris Flat o The Viennese Wohnung 9. Social Geography 132 The Town as a Map of Society o London o Paris o Vienna 10. Villa Suburbia 159 London o Paris o Vienna 11. Working-Class Housing: Scarcity, Abundance, and Domestic Values 178 THE CITY AS PLAYGROUND 12. London: Hidden Pleasures 189 13. Paris: The Garden and the Street 210 14. Vienna: Display and Self-Representation 235 THE CITY AS DOCUMENT 15. Architecture as Historical Evidence 251 16. The Beautiful 254 In Search of a Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic o London o Paris o Vienna 17. Architecture as Language: Representation and Instruction 281 18. The City as the Embodiment of History 295 Notes 313 Bibliography 329 Index 337
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