Urban design in Western Europe : regime and architecture, 900-1900 /

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Author / Creator:Braunfels, Wolfgang.
Uniform title:Abendländische Stadtbaukunst. English
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1988.
Description:xiii, 407 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm.
Language:English
German
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/920552
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Other authors / contributors:Northcott, Kenneth J.
ISBN:0226071782
Notes:Translation of: Abendländische Stadtbaukunst.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 373-391.
Table of Contents:
  • Regime and Architecture, 900-1900
  • Translator's Note
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cathedral Cities Cologne Trier Ecclesiastical
  • Cities of the 10th and 11th Centuries Halberstadt
  • Hildesheim Bamberg Cathedral Cities of the High Middle Ages
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Sea Powers Venice and Amsterdam
  • Contrasted Venice Luuml;beck Amsterdam Manhattan
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. 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
  • 7. Capital Cities Prague Vienna
  • The Conflict Paris as a Model City London
  • 8. 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