The Ludic City

Author : Quentin Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134143958
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludic City written by Quentin Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. Stevens explores and analyzes these case studies according to locations where play has been observed: paths, intersections, thresholds, boundaries and props. Applicable to a wide-range of countries and city forms, The Ludic City is a fascinating and stimulating read for all who are involved or interested in the design of urban spaces.

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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludic City written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Quentin Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134143966
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludic City written by Quentin Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring extensive observation of behaviours in public spaces and detailed studies of Melbourne, London, Berlin, New York and Brisbane, this book represents a fresh and detailed depiction of play in the specific context of urban public space.

Author : Shaun Teo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781339439525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludic City: Thinking Through Geographies of Encounter written by Shaun Teo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : This thesis is interested in the ludic city, which it takes to be a clarion call for an urban world that enchants its inhabitants through playful encounter. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

Author : Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350032158
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Play written by Rodrigo Pérez de Arce and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords – play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Pérez de Arce's erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground – from the hippodrome to the Situationist city – of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play. Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect's concerns with those of non-architects – and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone – architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike – a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities.

Author : Dale Leorke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000217787
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City written by Dale Leorke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City is a collection of chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from game studies, media studies, play studies, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. It situates the historical evolution of play and games in the urban landscape and outlines the scope of the various ways games and play contribute to the city’s economy, cultural life and environmental concerns. In connecting games and play more concretely to urban discourses and design strategies, this book urges scholars to consider their growing contribution to three overarching sets of discourses that dominate urban planning and policy today: the creative and cultural economies of cities; the smart and playable city; and ecological cities. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of game studies, play studies, landscape architecture (and allied design fields), urban geography, and art history. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003007760

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137120061
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance and the Contemporary City written by Nicolas Whybrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.

Author : Hossam Aldy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134950977
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating the City written by Hossam Aldy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists? What capacity do concepts and methods have to travel from one context to another? How can they be transferred? The strength of Urban Translations lies in its disciplinary and geographical comparison and dialogue on a global scale. It openly targets an international audience, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines (urban planning, sociology, architecture and anthropology) and presenting case studies from highly contrasting urban settings, including Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Cape Town, Dubai, Montreal, Geneva, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Berlin.

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718827
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and the City written by Nicolas Whybrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices. 'Art and the City' takes this observation as its cue to examine the role of art against a backdrop of globally rising urban populations, taking into account the more recent performative and relational 'turns' of art that have sought in their city settings to identify a participating spectator - an implicated citizen. In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas Whybrow discusses diverse examples, representing three key modern modalities of urban arts practice. The first, walking, involves works by Richard Wentworth, Francis AlA s, Mark Walllinger and others, the second, play, includes art by Antony Gormley, Mark Quinn and Carsten Holler. The third, cultural memory, Whybrow addresses through the controversial urban holocaust memorial sites of Peter Eisenman's memorial in Berlin and Rachel Whiteread's in Vienna.

Author : Timon Beyes
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839445094
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creativity Complex written by Timon Beyes and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in media representations and in advertisements, on social platforms, in schools and universities: There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Which terms and concepts enable us to understand its multiple and partly contradictory forms and processes? Where are its limits? Gathering and interweaving 40 short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.