About Streets

Introduction.- Part 1: Histories.- The street as an elemental atom of the urban system.- Towards a new urban paradigm: Lina Bo Bardi and the citadel of freedom.- Rockefeller center’s channel gardens: Pleasure, profit, and ceaseless transformations.- The intellectual versus the street: Ludwig Hilberseimer’s settlement unit.- Where the skyway ends: A past and future in downtown Minneapolis.- The street through the building.- Fixing a hole: Replicas and the conservation of streets.- House, street, city: Le Corbusier’s research towards a new urban interior.- Guts of the city: In the bowels of the street.- Towards a new narrative for the automotive strip.- Part 2: Geographies.- Replicas: Thoughts from Colonial Williamsburg and contemporary Berlin.- Streetscapes, dwellings, and performance in three Asian Museums.- The streets of Chinatown: Mapping the spatial character of a distinctive urban district.- Cultural intersections: Street networks in Seoul’s Jongno district.- Istiklal avenue: A distinctive urban assemblage in Istanbul.- Contested territories: Identity and memory in the public spaces of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Residential back alleys: Underdetermined spaces of multiple potentials.- The graphic urban ground.- The fragile architecture of public life: Unraveling the public-private interface.- Brownsville market square: A resurgence of city life.- Avenida 9 de Octubre and the malling of Guayaquil.-Part 3: Expressions.- Street matters: Urban policy lessons from a century of protests in Brazil.- Streets and women: Everyday public spaces for Egalitarian cities.- Doors as streets: Snøhetta’s Toronto Metropolitan University library as streetscape.- A dialogue of two infrastructures: Choreographing water and pathways in India.- Queer streets: A new kind of public.- Largo do Arouche: São Paulo’s Queer militant battlefield.- Filmic space of streets: Avant Garde interpretations of the urban experience in city symphonies.- Observing Prishtina: Sketching the city as a way of seeing.- Re-assembling revolution: Actors, material, and economies of Avenida Revolución.- Boulevard of American dreams: People, politics, and placemaking in the Cleveland cultural gardens.- Part 4: Designs.- Art and other appropriations: Reconstituting the street as a work of life.- 16th street Transitway mall: Revisiting an iconic street 40 Years later.- Streets in the air: A view from Latin America.- Streets for People: Parklets before and after the pandemic.- House +: Strategies for a domestic commons in an unzoned city.- Fashion street: The role of streets in the expression, impression, and acquisition of fashion.- Tactical urbanism: Staging the public use of left-over spaces.- Streets in the Studio: A cross-cultural exploration of Chinese Hutongs and American alleys.- Intricacy: Interior urbanism at the edges of contemporary public space.- Kiosk 67: An adaptable architecture for street life.- Part 5: Metrics.- Shaping high street futures: Place attraction and the Sun model of shopping choices.- Image of the road: The case of Celovška cesta in Ljubljana.- Digital placemaking: Social media as a tool to reappropriate public spaces.- Neighborhood parks and equitable access.- Collaboration in the creative city: Virtual and analogue co-creation of street art.- Navigating privacy and community in residential street design: Case studies from the Italian Ina-Casa plan.- Part 6: Reflections.- Interstices: Spaces of connection and disconnection.- Repeating the past: The politics of highway expansion in Houston.- Streetscapes: From cluttered to Spartan and back.- Oklahoma city: Cultivating urban possibilities on the Southern Plains.- Streetscapes as enabling social infrastructure.- Street trees: Making a case for a productive urban Canopy.- Dead ends: Notes on death, architecture, and the everyday life of the street.- Afterword.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2025
• Autor/Autorin: Gregory Marinic
• Reihe: Social Sciences (R0)
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• Verlag: SPRINGER
• Sprache: Englisch
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• ISBN: 9783031842313
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