TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsen, Donald  J.
TI  - City as a work of art : London, Paris, Vienna
SN  - 0300042124
U1  - 711.4 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New Haven,London etc
PB  - Yale Uni. Press
N1  - 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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