Urban Design in Western Europe

by Braunfels, Wolfgang; Northcott, Kenneth J.

• ISBN13: 9780226071794
• ISBN10: 0226071790
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-01-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city's personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of cities--cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial cities--and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.

Table of Contents

Regime and Architecture, 900-1900

Translator's Note

Preface

Introduction

Cathedral Cities Cologne Trier Ecclesiastical

Cities of the 10th and 11th Centuries Halberstadt

Hildesheim Bamberg Cathedral Cities of the High Middle Ages

City-States The Tuscan City-States

The Florentine Republic Pisa, Pistoia, Lucca Siena Florence as the Seat of a Princely Court

The Swiss Cantonal Capitals

Zuuml;rich and Bern

Sea Powers Venice and Amsterdam

Contrasted Venice Luuml;beck Amsterdam Manhattan

Imperial Cities Self-representation as Self-interpretation

Cathedral Ciites as Imperial Cities

Regensburg Augsburg Nuremberg as a Model City

Ulm and the Small Swabian Imperial Cities Esslingen Reutlingen

Rothenburg Ulm Imperial Residence and Imperial

City Aachen Goslar Frankfurt

Ideal Cities Aigues-Mortes and Richelieu

Terre Murate or Basides Star-shaped

Fortifications of the Baroque

Calais and Valletta Urbanization of the Swedish

Baltic Empire City Plan and the Order of Salvation

Seats Of A Princely Court Early Forms in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Turin Munich Berlin as the Seat of a Princely

Court Dresden and Nancy Episcopal Seats in the Holy Roman

Empire Salzburg Wuuml;rzburg Versailles Potsdam St. Petersburg

Capital Cities Prague Vienna

The Conflict Paris as a Model City London

The Second And Third Rome

The Second Rome The Vatican as Seat of Government

The Opening Up of the City and Its Hills

The Papal Squares The Capitol as Political Utopia

Epilogue The Unplannable

Notes

Credits

Index

Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.