Let me now turn to the detail of the cathedral’s north fagade and the northern part of the cloister (Figures 4.4 and 4.8), where the frame of reference will be determined not by distant and varied secular structures but, rather, by immediate and consistent ecclesiastical institutions. In the thirteenth century, the north fagade was completely […]

The parade had a short life, but nonetheless (according to polls carried out later that year) it was the most memorable event of the bicentennial. It was also shocking to many. The national anthem was sung by Jessye Norman, a black American-born opera singer. That night, France was no longer repre­sented by the traditional blonde […]

Istanbul began to emerge from Ankara’s shadow as the country’s prime city in the 1950s. The urban development that accommodated the city’s phenom­enal industrial and financial expansion took place mostly outside the historic peninsula, which was densely packed with old neighbourhoods and landmarks. Meanwhile, even though it was home to Turkey’s most prominent cultural heritage […]

The term ‘paysageite’ translates uncomfortably, as ‘landscapicity’, making preferable the use of the French original. It is a term that Deleuze and Guattari invented, perhaps playfully, to suggest a means by which to understand the way in which a mind can aspire to a condition in which it is taken over by wandering concepts. Rather […]

In positing a ‘socio-spatial dialectic’ the urbanist David Harvey and others have sought a rapprochement between sociologists’ analyses of urban space and geographers’. Nevertheless, Harvey is careful to avoid defining the relationship between social processes and spatial form as uni-directional in causal terms.43 It may be instructive, therefore, to perform a chiastic inversion of his […]