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City as Political Form: Four Archetypes of Urban Transformation
Author(s) -
Aureli Pier Vittorio
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1186
Subject(s) - archetype , the renaissance , politics , block (permutation group theory) , transformation (genetics) , power (physics) , history , sociology , art history , law , art , literature , political science , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , gene
Pier Vittorio Aureli focuses on the category of archetype as an alternative to the idea of type. Four examples – the axial streets of Renaissance Rome, the 17th‐century Parisian place , the 19th‐century independent block in Berlin and the 20th‐century Viennese superblock – are explored here to describe the emergence of modern urban forms that explicitly embody power relations.