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Arce Rodrigo Perez De (Independent Scholar Chile)
City Of Play An Architectural And Urban History Of Recreation And Leisure
City Of Play An Architectural And Urban History Of Recreation And Leisure
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Description: 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 P rez 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.
Title: City Of Play An Architectural And Urban History Of Recreation And Leisure
Author(s): Arce Rodrigo Perez De (Independent Scholar Chile)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350032163
Pages: 296 Pages, 200 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 5/31/2018
Category: History
Description: 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 P rez 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.
Title: City Of Play An Architectural And Urban History Of Recreation And Leisure
Author(s): Arce Rodrigo Perez De (Independent Scholar Chile)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350032163
Pages: 296 Pages, 200 Bw Illus
Publication Date: 5/31/2018
Category: History