TY  - BOOK
AU  - Psarra,Sophia
ED  - UCL Press
TI  - The Venice variations: tracing the architectural imagination 
SN  - 9781787352391 (PDF ebook) :
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Sustainable architecture
KW  - Architecture and Planning
N2  - From the myth of Arcadia through to the 21st century, ideas about sustainability remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. 'The Venice Variations' explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time
UR  - https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/107619
ER  -