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Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts dedicated to technology and design, “greening” the streets, reinventing historic districts as tourist draws—were deployed to build a globally competitive Buenos Aires after its devastating 2001 economic crisis. In this richly drawn account, Jacob Lederman explores what those efforts teach us about fast-evolving changes in city planning practices and why so m...
The Grid and the Park
Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city —an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it— that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park system, here appears as a particularly productive category because it encompasses dimensions of the material city, politics, and culture, which are usually studied separately. From Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s figurations of Palermo Park in the mid-nineteenth century to Jorge Luis Borges’s discovery of the suburb in the 1920s; from the modernization of the traditional center carried out by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear in the 1880s to the questioning of that centrality by the emergence of the suburban barrio, the book weaves the changing ideas on public space with urban culture to produce a new history of the metropolitan expansion of Buenos Aires, one of the most extensive and dynamic urban centers of the early twentieth century.
I misteri di Parigi
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L'Ottocento
Conclusosi il Settecento, che in Mozart ha conosciuto il culmine e la pienezza dell'espressione musicale, si accendono i fuochi dell'Ottocento. Ovunque in Europa si affermano le identità nazionali, alle quali contribuiscono compositori e platee, e ogni paese scandisce sul palcoscenico le proprie declinazioni artistiche: il gusto per la decorazione proprio degli italiani, l'innegabile tendenza a pontificare dei francesi, l'arte del racconto degli inglesi, lo scavo psicologico dei tedeschi. Ma, nonostante i diversi modi formali che le sensibilità nazionali suggeriscono ad autori come Čajkovskij, Musorgskij, Rossini, Donizetti, Offenbach, Bizet, Bellini, resta fermo, per ciascuno, il proposi...
Stravaganza: City of Secrets
The latest installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series begins with Matt, the new Stravagante. Despite having a beautiful and very smart girlfriend, Matt is insecure because he is dyslexic. He discovers that he is capable of traveling between two worlds when a leather-bound book transports him from his home in England to Talia, the parallel-world version of Italy, where he meets a fellow-Stravagante named Luciano-who is hiding from the powerful di Chimici family. Luciano has just killed the head of that family in a duel, and is in grave danger. Banding together, Matt and Luciano must resist the di Chimici family, who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world.
