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9780754647164

The Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian Square

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754647164

  • ISBN10:

    0754647161

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-07-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture.Illustrated by contemporary photographs, analytical drawings and historic images, it examines approximately 70 significant piazzas and situates these in their social and political contexts, highlighting shifts between autocratic and democratic forms of government from antiquity to the present day.The ideological role of political architecture is analysed through the work of various theorists including ancient sources (Plato, Vitruvius, Augustine), Renaissance thinkers (Alberti, Machiavelli, More) and modern critics (Zevi, Rossi, Tafuri).The complexity of the physical layering of individual spaces over time is represented by one single site in Travestere, Rome, where its history is traced from ancient times to the present day. Subsequent chapters then consider the development of Italian urban form in chronological sequence, categorized by art historical and political periods.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Roots of Italian Urban Form: Rome: the centre of the city as axis mundi
Christianity: the development of new urban forms
The Middle Ages: from the city of God to the city of man
The Early Modern City: Early Renaissance: perspective, representation and the ideal
High Renaissance: the modern city all'antica
Mannerism: the theatre of the city
Baroque: scale form and meaning
The City and National Consciousness
Neo-classicism: style and political ideology
Risorgimento: the formation of a national urban space
Fascism: the urban language of authoritarianism
Urban Expression In An Age of Uncertainty
Neo-realism: urban form and la dolce vita
Neo-rationalism: Aldo Rossi and the rediscovery of typology
Labyrinths: the city of 'the years of lead'
The piazza and the politics of the present
Bibliography
Index
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