作者简介
Nezar AlSayyad is Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the Asso cia te Dean for International Programs at the College of Environmental Design, and Ch ai r of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Berkeley. Additionally, he is the Director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments and principal editor of its journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.Related Subjects
Theory of Architecture
Urban Design
内容简介
The city and the cinema have become inextricably intertwined over the last century, with the identities of places becoming bound up in their cinematic portrayals. We have seen the landmarks of New York, London, Tokyo and a thousand others turn into iconic symbols of wealth, power, status, style and culture, and for the majority of people the image s and sounds of movies form the only experience they will ever have of distant cities. Alsayyad here argues that our understanding of the city cannot be viewed independently of cinematic experience. Films do not only capture the depiction of a society; they influence the way we construct images of the world and, as a result, how we operate within it. Inexorably, we are coming to blur the distinction between what is real in the everyday and how we imagine the everyday. "Cinematic Urbanism" e xplore s this dynamic, bringing together insights from urban and film studies to illuminate current architectural debate.
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