{"product_id":"the-scenes-of-the-street-and-other-essays","title":"The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnthony Vidler  an internationally recognized scholar  theorist  and critic of modern and contemporary architecture  is widely known for his essays on the most pressing issues and debates in the field. This volume brings together a collection of such writingsincluding the iconic  long unavailable Scenes of the Streetinto one volume. Scenes of the Street and Other Essays showcases Vidlers engaging and accessible expertise on both contemporary and historic subjects that are relevant to todays concerns. Scenes of the Street  a multi-faceted analysis of city planning is one such example; other essays in this volume include Unknown Lands: Guy Debord and the Cartographies of a Landscape to be Invented  Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault  and The Modern Acropolis: Tony Garnier from La Cit Antique to the Cit Industrielle. Vidler writes in his introduction: In the following essays  I have interrogated the struggle for an urban architecture in the modern period  its critiques and aspirations  in the belief that understanding the historical dimensions of the debate will lead to a renewal of interest in an architecture calculated to redeem  if only partially  our planet of slums and its deteriorating environment; an interest that will not simply reject utopia out of hand or fall back into the complacencies of nostalgia. Written during a period in which the debates themselves were actively engaged by critics and supporters of modernism  they reflect contemporary issues as they search for their prehistory. As historical inquiries  they inevitably also engage the transformations in history writing itself since 1970  intellectual responses to the social and political conditions of postwar modernity. This fascinating series of essays on issues and figures is an invaluable resource for architects and art historians and enthusiasts of structure and substance alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986722091061,"sku":"ByrdShop_1580932703","price":448.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781580932707.jpg?v=1770915098","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-scenes-of-the-street-and-other-essays","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}