City squares : eighteen writers on the spirit and significance of squares around the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062380203
- ISBN: 0062380206
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "With 93 photographs"--Dust jacket. |
Formatted Contents Note: | part one. Culture : the power of place: Introduction / by Michael Kimmelman ; Maidan-e-Pompa, Kabul : resisting the square / Rory Steward ; Place des Vosges, Paris : a private place / Adam Gopnik ; Red Square, Moscow, Grand Market Square, Krak©đw : the past is always present / Anne Applebaum ; Squares of Rome and Venice : the shadow of ideas : circles and squares / Zadie Smith ; Djemaa el-Fnaa, Marrkech : engaging with complexity and diversity / David Adjaye -- part two. Geopolitics : strength in numbers: Introduction / David Remnick ; Tahrir Square, Cairo : lost and found in the Square / Jehane Noujaim ; Rabin Square, Tel Aviv : so empty, so loud / Ari Shavit ; Taksim Square, Istanbul : Byzantine, then and now / Elif Shafak ; Tiananmen Square, Beijing : in search of heavenly peace / Evan Osnos ; Euromaidan, Kiev : a place becomes a movement / Chrystia Freeland -- part three. History : influence on humanity: Introduction / George Packer ; Grand Parade, Cape Town : a speech for the ages / Richard Stengel ; Residential squares, London : a meander through splendor and squalor / Andrew Roberts ; Zócalo, Mexico City : on sacred ground / Alma Guillermoprieto ; Harvard Square, Boston : a city changes, its heart endures / Ann Beattie ; The virtual square : Hacker Square / Gillian Tett. |
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Subject: | Public spaces -- Social aspects Plazas -- Social aspects City planning -- Social aspects Sociology, Urban City blocks |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design | HT185 .C58 2016 (Text) | 30230540 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |