Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

Contents: Introduction, Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg. Part I Urban Order and the Lived City: Convivimus ergo sumus, Peter Carl Squaring the city: between Roman and Rabbinic urban geometry, Gil P. Klein Medieval moderns? Cistercians and the city, Maximilian Sternberg The proximity of difference and the three cities of Copenhagen, Henriette Steiner. Part II Culture and the Natural World: Atmospheric conditions, David Leatherbarrow Art Nouveau gardens of the mind: bell jars, hothouses, and winter gardens - preserving immanent natures, Amy Catania Kulper Burning the grove: from the celestial garden to the picturesque landscape in Baroque England, Robert Ferguson The garden and the city: fragmented dreams of totality, Mari Hvattum. Part III From Fragment to City: Between architecture and the city, Dalibor Vesely Early debates in modern architectural education: between instrumentality and historical phronesis, Alberto Perez-GA(3)mez Gothic of the Murdered God: from the crystal creed to the spirit of abstraction in modern German architecture, Gabriele Bryant Corporeal spatiality and the restorative fragment in early twentieth-century art and architecture, Dagmar Motycka Weston. Part IV Urban Discontinuities: Agon in urban conflict: some possibilities, Wendy Pullan A fragment in the city: the Behind the Iron Gate housing estate, Gabriela Aswitek The phenomenology of food, Carolyn Steel Changing places: navigating urbanity in the global South, Matthew Barac. Index.