Author: Ferdinando Castagnoli
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The present work examines Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Hellenistic, and Roman cities that were based on orthogonal or grid plans--those characterized by streets intersecting at right angles to form blocks of regular size and spacing.
Orthogonal Town Planning in Antiquity
Author: Ferdinando Castagnoli
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The present work examines Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Hellenistic, and Roman cities that were based on orthogonal or grid plans--those characterized by streets intersecting at right angles to form blocks of regular size and spacing.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The present work examines Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Hellenistic, and Roman cities that were based on orthogonal or grid plans--those characterized by streets intersecting at right angles to form blocks of regular size and spacing.
Phenomenology of the Winter-City
Author: Abraham Akkerman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319267019
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, urbanism, geography, history, and architecture, the book shows the association of existentialism with prevalence of mood disorder in Northern Europe at the close of Little Ice Age. It explains the implications of city-form and traces the role of the myths and allegories of urban design as well as the history of gender projection onto city-form. It shows how urbanization in Northern Europe provided easier access to shelter, yet resulted in sunlight deprivation, and yielded increasing incidence of depression and other mental disorder among the European middle-class. The book uses the examples of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka, to show how walking through the streets, squares and other urban voids became the informal remedy to mood disorder, a prominent trait among founders of modern Existentialism. It concludes by describing how the connection of anguish and violence is relevant to winter depression in cities, in North America in particular.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319267019
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, urbanism, geography, history, and architecture, the book shows the association of existentialism with prevalence of mood disorder in Northern Europe at the close of Little Ice Age. It explains the implications of city-form and traces the role of the myths and allegories of urban design as well as the history of gender projection onto city-form. It shows how urbanization in Northern Europe provided easier access to shelter, yet resulted in sunlight deprivation, and yielded increasing incidence of depression and other mental disorder among the European middle-class. The book uses the examples of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka, to show how walking through the streets, squares and other urban voids became the informal remedy to mood disorder, a prominent trait among founders of modern Existentialism. It concludes by describing how the connection of anguish and violence is relevant to winter depression in cities, in North America in particular.
The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7
Author: Michael Gagarin
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195170725
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 3369
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195170725
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 3369
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
Author: David Sacks
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
American Classical Review
Place and Thought
Author: Abraham Akkerman
Publisher: London : Woodridge
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: London : Woodridge
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description