Cityscapes in History

Name: Cityscapes in History
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment. Through such an approach it is possible to make fascinating connections between such seemingly diverse topics as 15th-century France and 20th-century United States, thus raising valuable questions about scholarly approaches to urban studies. > Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment. The concept \u2019cityscapes\u2019 refers to three different dynamics that shape the development of the urban environment: the interplay between conscious planning and organic development, the tension between social control and its unintended consequences and the relationship between projection and self-presen.