Summary
This book offers a new way of looking at the geographical spaces occupied by urban squares, proposing a different perspective on European urban squares. This might strike one as a bold statement, but it should first and foremost be taken literally. The photographs in this book, taken with a professional drone, show an aerial view of squares in a number of historical European cities. Famous squares in well-known cities across Europe, from Lisbon to Istanbul, are presented alongside lesser-known but no less interesting squares.
Drone photography offers a bird’s eye view. This is one of the few instances where technical and artistic languages successfully overlap. The bird’s eye view is, almost without exception, spectacular. This view reveals something we might have only intuited until now: a deeper structure, which points to a new perspective on squares in a figurative sense as well.
Drone photography offers a bird’s eye view. This is one of the few instances where technical and artistic languages successfully overlap. The bird’s eye view is, almost without exception, spectacular. This view reveals something we might have only intuited until now: a deeper structure, which points to a new perspective on squares in a figurative sense as well.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- EUROPEAN SQUARES and their histories
- Pienza, Italy: Piazza Pio II
- Gubbio, Italy: Piazza Grande
- Todi, Italy: Piazza del Popolo, Piazza Garibaldi
- Vicenza, Italy: Piazza dei Signori, Piazza delle Biade, Piazza delle Erbe, Piazzetta Palladio
- Brescia, Italy: Piazza Paolo VI, Piazza della Loggia
- Pitigliano, Italy: Piazza San Gregorio VII
- Arezzo, Italy: Piazza Grande
- Città di Castello, Italy: Piazza Gabriotti, Piazza Matteotti
- Lucca, Italy: Piazza dell’Anfiteatro
- Bergamo, Italy: Piazza Vechia, Piazza Duomo
- Orvieto, Italy: Piazza del Duomo
- Assisi, Italy: Piazza del Comune
- Marostica, Italy: Piazza Castello
- Udine, Italy: Piazza della Libertà
- Palmanova, Italy: Piazza Grande
- Trieste, Italy: Piazza dell’Unità d’Italia
- The Lives of European Squares
- Venice, Italy: Piazza San Marco
- Piran, Slovenia: Tartinijev trg
- Ljubljana, Slovenia: Prešernov trg, Mestni trg
- Rovinj, Croatia: Trg Svete Eufemije, Trg G. Matteottija
- Split, Croatia: Trg Peristil
- Dubrovnik, Croatia: Trg Luža, Gundulićeva poljana
- Zadar, Croatia: Trg Rimskog Foruma
- Motovun, Croatia: Trg Andrea Antico
- Trogir, Croatia: Trg Ivana Pavla II
- Poreč, Croatia: Trg Marafor, Trg Slobode
- Šibenik, Croatia: Trg Republike Hrvatske
- Kotor, Montenegro: Trg od Oružja, Trg od Brašna, Pjaca Svetog Tripuna, Trg Sveti Luke
- Herceg Novi, Montenegro: Trg Herceg Stjepana
- Perast, Montenegro: Trg Sveti Nikole
- Kruševo, Republic of North Macedonia: Cearshia
- Etymologies
- Istanbul, Turkey: Sultanahmet Meydanı
- Tbilisi, Georgia: Meidan Bazaar
- Tbilisi, Georgia: Tavisuplebis Moedani
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Baščaršija
- Thessaloniki, Greece: Plateia Aristotelous
- Kallarites, Greece: Plateia
- Syrrako, Greece: Plateia
- Vovousa, Greece: Plateia
- The squares of Aromanian Settlements from The Pindus Mountains, Greece
- Sofia, Bulgaria: Ploshcead Sveti Aleksandar Nevski
- Tryavna, Bulgaria: Ploshchead Kapitan Diado Nikola
- Bucharest, Romania: Piața Universității
- Brașov, Romania: Piața Sfatului
- Sibiu, Romania: Piața Mare, Piața Mică
- Alba Iulia, Romania: Piața Cetății
- Timișoara, Romania: Piața Unirii, Piața Libertății, Piața Victoriei
- Tarnów, Poland: Rynek
- Krakow, Poland: Rynek Główny
- Retz, Austria: Hauptplatz
- Mikulov, Czech Republic: Náměstí
- Znojmo, Czech Republic: Masarykovo náměstí, Horní náměstí
- České Budějovice, Czech Republic: Náměstí Přemysla Otakara II
- Slavonice, Czech Republic: Náměstí Míru, Horní náměstí
- Český Krumlov, Czech Republic: Náměstí Svornosti
- Tábor, Czech Republic: Žižkovo náměstí
- Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic: Náměstí Míru
- Telč, Czech Republic: Náměstí Zachariáše z Hradce
- Štramberk, Czech Republic: Náměstí
- Pelhřimov, Czech Republic: Masarykovo náměstí
- Nový Jičín, Czech Republic: Masarykovo náměstí
- Kroměříž, Czech Republic: Velké náměstí
- Třeboň, Czech Republic: Masarykovo náměstí
- Synoecism
- Košice, Slovakia: Hlavné námestie
- Podolínec, Slovakia: Mariánske námestie
- Bardejov, Slovakia: Radničné námestie
- Levoča, Slovakia: Námestie Majstra Pavla
- Prešov, Slovakia: Hlavná ulica
- Passau, Germany: Domplatz
- Wismar, Germany: Am Markt
- Bremen, Germany: Marktplatz
- Lüneburg, Germany: Platz Am Sande
- Schwerin, Germany: Am Markt
- Stralsund, Germany: Alter Markt, Neuer Markt
- Wernigerode, Germany: Marktplatz
- Short History of European Squares
- Goslar, Germany: Marktplatz
- Naarden, Netherlands: Markt
- Elburg, Netherlands: Marktplatz
- Bourtange, Netherlands: Marktplein
- Amersfoort, Netherlands: Marktplein de Hof
- Salamanca, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Valladolid, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Peñafiel, Spain: Plaza del Coso
- Ávila, Spain: Plaza del Mercado Chico
- Bilbao, Spain: Plaza Nueva
- Chinchón, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Frías, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Plasencia, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Segovia, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Cáceres, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain: Plaza Mayor
- Almeida, Portugal: Praça de São João
- Tomar, Portugal: Praça da República
- Óbidos, Portugal: Praça de Santa Maria
- Lisbon, Portugal: Praça de D. Pedro IV
- Lisbon, Portugal: Praça do Comércio
- Lisbon, Portugal: Praça do Município
- The Symbolic Square
- Coimbra, Portugal: Praça 8 de Maio
- Leiria, Portugal: Praça Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
- Elvas, Portugal: Praça da República
- Content
- Bibliography and Credits Acknowledgments
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The complete bibliography forming the basis of this book is extensive, given the subject matter, and listed here it would cover too many additional pages in a book that has another purpose. This bibliography includes both general and specialised works, with numerous volumes dedicated to specific squares, and was consulted for the author’s PhD in Architecture. Even if sources are not specified in particular instances, most of the technical data regarding various squares’ dimensions, the dates of their construction, etc. are taken primarily from two volumes: Sophie Wolfrum (ed.), Squares. Urban Spaces in Europe , Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, 2015; Paul Zucker, Town and Square. From the Agora to the Green Village , Columbia University Press, USA, 1959. Additional data have also been extracted from the following three volumes: Maria Teresa Feraboli, City Squares of the World , White Star Publishers, Verecelli, Italy, 2007; Robert F. Gatje, Great Public Squares. An Architect’s Selection , Norton, New York, London, 2010; Michael Webb, The City Square. A Historical Evolution , Watson-Guptill, New York, USA, 1990.
Details
- Pages
- 242
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781800794986
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781800794993
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781800795006
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781800794979
- DOI
- 10.3726/b18394
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (October)
- Keywords
- visual anthropology drone photography architecture urbanism square
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2021. 242 pp., 321 fig. col.
