The Art of the City
Raffaele Milani is beside himself with concern about the current deplorable state of modern megacities. As an Italian, he has lived the contradictions as his lovely country, with its distinguished history of glorious cities, and has been wounded by industrial sprawl and thoughtless construction, especially in the north. It causes him to draw out how that has become the prevailing truth, like a bad dream, around the world. As a scholarly professor of aesthetics, he reacts to his anxiety not with a knee-jerk emotional rant but through a careful inquiry into what has made it all happen and explanation of why his worry is so well founded. In his book, The Art of the City, Milani takes us on an intensive tour of mythical, philosophical and psychological explanations throughout history about our relationship with cities and what cities have contributed to the human spirit. In three main sections?entitled ?The City as Habitat,? ?What is the City"? and ?The Art of the City,? the author describes the current state of cities, zeroing in on what he thinks has been lost. He poses a rhetorical question for architects and planners of whether or not the art of city-making still exists. And then, he suggests directions for a revitalization of that art.
The Art of the City, Rafaelle Milani
Milani explores what the city has been in human culture by discussing the history and commentary of real cities, celestial and imagined cities in literature, and even apocalyptic cities in films and ...
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