Civic Realism

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MIT Press, 1999 - 266 síður

A study of the shape and appearance of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence.

A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments.

 

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An Organization of Public and Civic Life
9
Sienas Piazza del Campo
24
Civic Realms and Public Places
42
Civic Interaction between the State and Civil Society
58
Realism and World Making
80
Neorealism and Romes Postwar Development
100
Definition of Architectural Realism
116
Regionalism and Plans for a City
167
Plečniks Water Axis in Ljubljana
180
The Civic the Real and the Specific
203
Toward a WellGrounded Contemporaneity
220
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Peter G. Rowe is Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design.

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