Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City

[Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton], and Marina Lathouri (Editors)
New York: Routledge, 2009
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780472802

 

Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. 

Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public and the private. The legal, political and administrative frameworks of urban life are seen as constituting private individuals’ sense of self, in a wide range of European and world cities from Amsterdam and Barcelona to London and Chicago.

 

PhD Dissertation title: Marina Lathouri. Reconstructing the Topographies of the Modern City: The Late CIAM Debates
Completed: 2006
Supervisor: David Leatherbarrow