Palimpsests: Biographies of 50 City Districts. International Case Studies of Urban Change

by Paul Knox

Overview

Knox’ in-situ studies present 50 especially significant city districts from the whole of Europe in words and pictures. His field research focuses on typologically outstanding city districts that have developed a high degree of individuality.
Cities are the symbiosis of diverse districts: the smaller units serve to provide an important identity function: business centers and amusement districts such as the City and the West End in London, technology and science quarters (Adlershof in Berlin), designer districts such as the Zona Tortona in Milan and the Fashion District in New York. Two other factors that play a major role are the conversion of industrial wastelands and new districts colored by a supranational capitalism or a sustainable or dubious planning – such as the Vauban residential quarter in Freiburg in South Germany or the Lower Ninth District in New Orleans. Paul Knox also always analyzes how and why these districts have turned out the way they are: outlining their visible and also their hidden and often blurred "biography". A fascinating journey through space and time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034608091
Publisher:	Birkhäuser
Publication date:	07/04/2012
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.66(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Knox, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech Universität.

Paul Knox, College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, (United States).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Cities and their Districts Abandoibarra, Bilbao Adlershof, Berlin Ancoats, Manchester Belgravia, London Boundary Street, London Bournville, Birmingham Bryggen, Bergen Cary, Raleigh The City, London Dorchester, Boston Eastern Harbour, Amsterdam Encino, California False Creek, Vancouver Fashion District, New York Forest Hills Gardens, New York The Ghetto, Venezia Grands Boulevards, Paris Greenbelt, Maryland Hollywood, Los Angeles Hoxton, London Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin Isle of Dogs, London Kentlands, Maryland The Kuip, Ghent La Défense, Paris Levittown, New York Little Saigon, Los Angeles The Loop, Chicago Lower 9th, New Orleans The Marais, Paris Mission District, San Francisco New Town, Edinburgh Old Town, Alexandria, VA Pike Place Market, Seattle Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Quadrilatero della moda, Milano Riverside, Chicago Scharnhauser Park, Stuttgart Schöneberg, Berlin Shaw, Washington DC South Beach, Miami SouthPark, Charlotte Spitalfields, London Temple Bar, Dublin Theatreland, London Trastevere, Roma Tysons Corner, Virginia Vauban, Freiburg im Breisgau Zähringerstadt, Bern Zona Tortona, Milano