Langbeschreibung
Written for postgraduate students, researchers and academics in architectural theory and urban studies, Griffiths draws on the space syntax tradition of research to explore how contingencies of movement and encounter construct the historical imagination.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: the architectural topography of historical imagination Part I: Contingency in the historiographies of the English reformation, French revolution and era of the industrial revolution in England 1. Contingency and artifice 2. Encounter and utterance 3. Milieu and movement 4. Figure and event Part II: Writing history as a city 5. Proximity and distance 6. The revolutionary encounter field: Paris c.1789-94 and other stories 7. Recollection and re-enactment 8. Morphologies of feeling Appendix A: A notation for the architectural topographic sequencing of texts Appendix B: Synopsis of Cinderella Appendix C: Additional architectural topographic sequences from Cinderella Appendix D: Search terms and categories used in toponemic analysis references index