The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Notes
1 Barry Curtis, “Venice Metro,” in Strangely
Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City, ed.
Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Alicia Pivaro, and Jane
Rendell (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 42–46.
2 Georg Simmel, Roma, Firenze e Venezia;
quoted in Patrizia Lombardo, “Introduction: The
Philosophy of the City,” in Architecture and Nihilism:
On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture, by
Massimo Cacciari, trans. Stephen Sartarelli (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), p. lvii.
3 See William J. Mitchell, e-topia—Urban
Life, Jim—But Not as We Know It (Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1999) pp. 76–77.
4 Cacciari, Architecture and Nihilism, p. 95.
5 Jean Baudrillard, “Please Follow Me,” Art
and Text, March–May 1987, p. 108.
6 Casola is quoted in Venice, an Illustrated Anthology,
comp. Michael Marqusee (London: Conran
Octopus, 1988), p. 7.
7 Adrian Stokes, Venice: An Aspect of Art (London:
Faber and Faber, 1945), p. 7.
8 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity:
An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), pp. 92–93.
9 Lombardo, “Introduction,” p. xx.
10 Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body
and the City in Western Civilization (London: Faber
and Faber, 1994), p. 188.
11 Adrian Forty, “Masculine, Feminine, or
Neuter?” in Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender,
and the Interdisciplinary, ed. Katerina Ruedi,
Sarah Wigglesworth, and Duncan McCorquodale
(London: Black Dog, 1996), p. 148.
12 See the endplates and references throughout
in J. Tyrwhitt, J. L. Sert, and E. N. Rogers, eds.,
CIAM 8: The Heart of the City (London: Lund
Humphries, 1952).
13 Elizabeth Wilson, “Looking Backward:
Nostalgia and the City,” in Imagining Cities:
Scripts, Signs, Memory, ed. Sallie Westwood and
John Williams (London: Routledge, 1997), p.
132.
On Memory and the City
14 Doreen Massey, “My Mother Lives Now in a
Nursing Home,” in Borden et al., Strangely Familiar,
p. 75.
15 Quoted by Martin Woollacott in “Coke and
Big Macs Aren’t the Real Thing,” review of Mark
Predergast’s history of the Coca Cola Company,
Guardian, 4 January 1997, p. 14.
16 Marc Augé Non-Places: Introduction to an
Anthropology of Supermodernity (London: Verso,
1995), p. 101.
17 Ibid., p. 29.
18 Dolores Hayden, “The Power of Place: Urban
Landscapes as Public History” (pp. 47–51);
Iain Chambers, “Naples, the Emergent Archaic”
(pp. 52–56); and M. Christine Boyer, “Twice
Told Stories: The Double Erasure of Times
Square” (pp. 77–81); all in Borden et al.,
Strangely Familiar.
19 James E. Young, The Texture of Memory:
Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1993), p. 14.
20 Aldo Rossi, “What Is to Be Done with the
Old Cities?” in Architectural Design no. 55, 5/6,
The School of Venice, ed. Luciano Semerani (London:
AD Editions, 1985), p. 19.
21 Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, trans. William
Weaver (London: Secker and Warburg, 1974).
22 Walter Benjamin, “A Berlin Chronicle,” in
One-Way Street and Other Writings, trans. Edmund
Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter (London: New
Left Books, 1979), p. 314.
23 Ibid., p. 345.
24 Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday
Life, trans. Steven F. Rendall (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1988), pp. 91–114.
25 Ibid., p. 50.