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Titre(s) : City squares [Texte imprimé] : eighteen writers on the spirit and significance of squares around the world / Catie Marron
Publication : New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2016
Description matérielle : xiii, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction / Catie MarronPart 1 ; Culture : power of the place. ; Introduction /Michael
Kimmelman ; Maidan-e-Pompa, Kabul : resisting the square /Rory Stewart ; Place des
Vosges, Paris : a private place /Adam Gopnik ; Red Square, Moscow, Grand Market Square,
Kraków : the past is always present /Anne Applebaum ; Squares of Rome and Venice :
the shadow of ideas : Circles and squares /Zadie Smith ; Djemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakech
: engaging with complexity and diversity /David AdjayePart 2 ; 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 FreelandPart 3 ; 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
Note(s) : "With 93 photographs"--Jacket. - Includes bibliographical references
"In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick,
Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke the spirit and history
of some of the world's most recognized and significant city squares, accompanied by
illustrations from equally distinguished photographers. Over half of the world's citizens
now live in cities, and this number is rapidly growing. At the heart of these municipalities
is the square--the defining urban public space since the dawn of democracy in Ancient
Greece. Each square stands for a larger theme in history: cultural, geopolitical,
anthropological, or architectural, and each of the eighteen luminary writers has contributed
his or her own innate talent, prodigious research, and local knowledge"--Amazon.com
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Marron, Catie. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Espaces publics -- Société
Places -- Société
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780062380203. - ISBN 0062380206
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb452387945
Notice n° :
FRBNF45238794
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