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On the Street - In-Between Architecture (Hardcover)
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On the Street - In-Between Architecture (Hardcover)
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There is a layer of the public architecture that has become so
familiar that we barely notice it. Street furniture has the
capacity to define a city, to locate it and to anchor us within it.
Benches, bollards, streetlights, signs, barriers, post boxes, phone
booths - they are the physical manifestation of public
infrastructure, a network of goods between architecture and the
body. In this book, Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic
of the Financial Times, looks at the cultural impact of street
furniture using photography as a measure of how these things have
become indispensable components of the cityscape. Based mainly in
and on London - but including New York, Paris and Budapest -
Heathcote uses history, personal reflection and the lenses of
photographers to examine the status of these urban artefacts in
both the contemporary imagination and the city streets themselves.
It looks at the changing landscape of the cityscape and the way in
which street furniture has been adapted to address new
technologies, the culture of surveillance and shifts in taste,
orthodoxy and material culture. On the Street looks at the language
of street furniture reflected through the glaze of photography and
contemporary culture. It is a book about the elements of the
streetscape which can exert an increasing impact on our interaction
with the cities we inhabit.
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