Streets
Streets

Author: Zeynep Çelik

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780520085503

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This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo ... The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is a detailed investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political, and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space.

Health and Medicine on Display
Health and Medicine on Display

Author: Julie K. Brown

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0262026570

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"With Heath and Medicine on Display, Julie Brown offers the first book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice. " -- Inside dust jacket.

The German Example
The German Example

Author: David Phillips

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1441141308

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Fascinating analysis, based on extensive archival research, of the impact of the 'German example' on the development of English educational policy, 1800 to the present.