Image: Llieux d’intérêt référencés comme concessionnaires par le guide touristique de 2017, cartographie LU Yue, 2017 Abstract This article examines the status of Western concessions in the tourism promotion of Tianjin, a major industrial and commercial centre and China’s fourth largest city by population. Based on the way in which various official tourist media have …
Abstract The paper reviews the Western studies concerning the architectural and urban history of the concessions of Tianjin, actually very sparse as regards the number of works dedicated to Shanghai. More relevant than those few publications are the master theses and PhDs, either finished or still ongoing, which offer insight on the subject of the …
Abstract This book includes a graphical analysis of twelve urban design projects in six cities of Ibero-America. Among the chosen examples is the “Poblado Dirigido” of Caño Roto in Madrid, designed by Antonio Vázquez de Castro and José Luis Íñiguez de Onzoño in 1957, which is an outstanding example of post-war design at an urban …
Abstract The Residencia de Estudiantes is a milestone in the history of modern Spanish culture, not only because of its prominent residents and guest lecturers (Einstein and Keynes, Le Corbusier and Gropius among many others), but also because of its architecture and urban design, developed by the architect Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta since 1910. The project …
Abstract This chapter of the book Legado Francisco de Asís Cabrero Torres-Quevedo, edited by COAM in 2007, describes and analyzes an example of post Spanish Civil War urban design by architect Francisco de Asís Cabrero, a housing neighbourhood in Béjar (Salamanca). The design, developed in 1942, is probably based on Italian precedents the author was …
Abstract The long survivals of open public spaces is a major feature in Istanbul’s urban history. The ancient Hippdrome, preserving its original name as the horse square, in Turkish At Meydanı, is a key example, since the 17th century also serving as an external courtyard to the Sultan Ahmet (Blue) Mosque. Such public spaces were …
Abstract Based on a research and fieldwork carried out in the framework of the EU-funded research project MODSCAPES (Modernist Reinventions of the Rural Landscape, funded under HERA JRP III call “Uses of the Past”, Oct. 2016–2019), this contribution focuses on the case study of the Pontine Plain. In the 1930s, as part of Mussolini’s ruralization …
Abstract During the 30’s, the Fascist Party achieves its most significant territorial project: the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes and the construction of New Towns. In the same years starts the debate between modernity and tradition, that will characterize the whole history of modern Italian architecture, and the Fascist party obtains its highest approval trying …
Abstract With the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes – known all over the world as the main unresolved Italian heritage – and the construction of the New Towns during the 30’s, the Fascist Party achieves its most significant territorial project. This project becomes the first Regime’s propagandistic instrument concluding, in less than ten years, the …
Image: Emanuela Margione, 2018: Aprilia. Contemporary Survey Abstract Quarta delle cinque città di fondazione costruite dal fascismo negli anni Trenta alle porte di Roma, la città di Aprilia, nella storia dell’Agro Pontino, risulta particolarmente interessante in quanto unica eccezione sottoposta ad un duplice processo di demolizione: il primo, avvenuto nel 1944 durante il conflitto bellico; …
