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City of Play - An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure (Hardcover)
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City of Play - An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure (Hardcover)
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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 Perez 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.
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