What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

阿兰•巴丢（Alain Badiou）,法国当代著名哲学家、作家、政治活动家。1937年出生于法属摩洛哥，毕业于巴黎高等师范学校，参加过阿尔都塞的学习小组，曾深受雅克•拉康的影响。1999年起任教于巴黎高等师范学校，曾担任哲学学科主席，在逻辑、数学和马克思主义等多方面均有深入研究。巴丢绝非书斋中的哲学家，有着激进的政治思想，在参与左派政治组织的社会活动方面不遗余力。作为一位高产的思想者，他已有数十部著作问世，如《主体理论》《存在与事件》《世界的逻辑：存在与事件2》《德勒兹》《圣保罗》《维特根斯坦的反哲学》《袖珍先贤祠》《哲学宣言》《第二哲学宣言》《法国哲学的冒险》等。

为什么是圣保罗？为什么要诉诸这位“使徒”？他似乎更加怀疑自称为“使徒”的正确性，他的名字常常与基督教最不开放、最制度化的方面有关：教会，道德纪律，社会保守主义，对犹太人的怀疑。我们何以把这个名字纳入我的研究？我的研究旨在重建一个主体理论，把生存置于事件的机遇维度，置于多元存在的纯粹偶然性，而又不牺牲真理。

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Urban cult...(展开全部)

Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I remained in a wood. When I stepped out of this I found myself on a large plain immediately under the equator.

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)