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Author Psarra, Sophia, author.

Title The Venice variations : tracing the architectural imagination / Sophia Psarra.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability, how we imagine better urban environments, remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Venice (Italy)
City planning -- Italy -- Venice.
City planning.
Italy -- Venice.
Utopias.
Utopias.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: PSARRA, SOPHIA. VENICE VARIATIONS. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL PRESS, 2018 1787352412 (OCoLC)1013592375
ISBN 9781787352391 (electronic book)
1787352390 (electronic book)
1787352412
9781787352414