Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges

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ISBN: 9780415424066 | 0415424062
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Copyright: 1/9/2009

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Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis brings together rich perspectives on the thought, practice and enduring legacy of leading figures from the great era of town planning and civic art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction: The Never-ending Debate	p. xiv
Civic Art Then and Now: The Culture of Good Place-Making	p. 1
Camillo Sitte and the Picturesque: Precedents and Perspectives	p. 23
Vienna Fin-de-siecle: Between Artistic City Planning and Unlimited Metropolis	p. 25
Camillo Sitte as "Semperian"	p. 39
Camillo Sitte, Architect and Planner. The Project for the Civic Center of Privoz/Oderfurt, Moravia	p. 53
Schinkel, Sitte, and Loos: The "Body in the Visible"	p. 69
Camillo Sitte: Orders in Reception	p. 99
Forced Spontaneities: Camillo Sitte and the Paradox of the Picturesque	p. 109
Political Connotations of the Picturesque	p. 123
The Pack Donkey's Revenge: Sitte and Modernist Urbanism	p. 141
Artistic City Planning versus Junk Space	p. 149
International Exchanges	p. 159
Handbooks of Civic Art from Sitte to Hegemann	p. 161
Camillo Sitte across the Atlantic: Raymond Unwin, John Nolen, and Werner Hegemann	p. 175
Jacques Greber's L'architecture aux Etats-Unis: A Companion Piece to The American Vitruvius	p. 197
The Latin American City and its Viennese Planning Approach: Karl Brunner in Chile and Colombia (1929-1948)	p. 211
Camillo Sitte and Werner Hegemann: Challenges for a Contemporary Transatlantic Bridging	p. 227
The Metropolitan Context	p. 235
The Art of Street Architecture: The Case of Manchester	p. 237
Dwelling in the Metropolis: Sitte, Hegemann, and the International Dissemination of Reformed Urban Blocks 1890-1940	p. 249
Paris Seen By Hegemann: Classicism, Reform, and Bad Taste	p. 275
Hegemann and Modern Public Spaces	p. 285
Hegemann's Das steinerne Berlin: A Misunderstanding	p. 295
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