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020 $a9781350032170$qhardcover ;$qalkaline paper
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050 00 $aNA2543.R43$bP47 2018
082 00 $a720.1/03$223
100 1 $aPérez de Arce, Rodrigo,$eauthor.
245 10 $aCity of play :$ban architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure /$cRodrigo Pérez de Arce.
264 1 $aLondon, UK :$bBloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axvii, 275 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aCity 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.
650 0 $aArchitecture and recreation.
650 0 $aSpace (Architecture)$xPsychological aspects.
650 7 $aArchitecture and recreation.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00813571
650 7 $aSpace (Architecture)$xPsychological aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01127608
852 00 $boff,ave$hNA2543.R43$iP47 2018