Urban Design in Western Europe Regime & Architecture 900 1900 PDF Book Download *FREE

What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identified certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. Most important is an architecture that expresses the city’s personality and most particularly its political personality. Braunfels describes and classifies scores of citiesand#8212;cathedral cities, city-state, maritime cities, imperial citiesand#8212;and examines the links between their political and architectural histories. Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird’s-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, this book will delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers.

What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identifies certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice. These themes include suitability of site to city function; the capacity to adapt to changing demographic and economic conditions; and—perhaps most important—an architecture that expresses a city’s personality and most particularly its political personality.

Kenneth J. Northcott is professor emeritus of German at the University of Chicago. He has translated a number of books for the University of Chicago Press.

Translator’s Note

Preface

Introduction

1. CATHEDRAL CITIES

Cologne

Trier

Ecclesiastical Cities of the 10th and 11th Centuries

Halberstadt

Hildesheim

Bamberg

Cathedral Cities of the High Middle Ages

2. CITY-STATES

The Tuscan City-States

The Florentine Republic

Pisa, Pistoia, Lucca

Siena

Florence as the Seat of a Princely Court

The Swiss Cantonal Capitals: Zanduuml;rich and Bern

3. SEA POWERS

Venice and Amsterdam Contrasted

Venice

Landuuml;beck

Amsterdam

Manhattan

4. IMPERIAL CITIES

Self-representation as Self-interpretation

Cathedral Ciites as Imperial Cities

Regensburg

Augsburg

Nuremberg as a Model City

Ulm and the Small Swabian Imperial Cities

Esslingen

Reutlingen

Rothenburg

Ulm

Imperial Residence and Imperial City

Aachen

Goslar

Frankfurt

5. IDEAL CITIES

Aigues-Mortes and Richelieu

Terre Murate or Basides

Star-shaped Fortifications of the Baroque

Calais and Valletta

Urbanization of the Swedish Baltic Empire

City Plan and the Order of Salvation

6. SEATS OF A PRINCELY COURT

Early Forms in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Turin

Munich

Berlin as the Seat of a Princely Court

Dresden and Nancy

Episcopal Seats in the Holy Roman Empire

Salzburg

Wanduuml;rzburg

Versailles

Potsdam

St. Petersburg

7. CAPITAL CITIES

Prague

Vienna: The Conflict

Paris as a Model City

London

8. THE SECOND AND THIRD ROME

The Second Rome

The Vatican as Seat of Government

The Opening Up of the City and Its Hills

The Papal Squares

The Capitol as Political Utopia

Epilogue: The Unplannable

Notes

Credits

Index