City of Play : An Architectural and Urban History of Recreation and Leisure.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Image -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Elusive imprints -- PART ONE The field -- 1 The whereabouts of play -- Everywhere -- Spheres of action -- Field and stage -- The Canon -- The primeval -- Field and square -- Skin and precincts -- 2 Formal and relational traits -- Scale -- Topology -- Topography -- Symmetry -- Perspectival alignments -- The informal and the formless -- 3 Materials -- The lawn -- Sand and snow -- Water -- 4 Locational attributes -- Orientation -- Adaptations -- Clustering: couplings and mosaics -- The near formal -- Site specific -- 5 Park and amusement park -- PART TWO Players -- 6 The athlete -- Introduction -- Cells and arenas -- Bucolic deportments -- 7 The child -- Introduction -- The sky -- The street -- Anywhere -- Tumuli -- Displacements -- Ludic cores -- Future imperfect -- Stillness and the miniature -- Statuary: action and the immobile -- 8 Back to order -- The school -- The campus -- 9 The citizen -- The rebirth of Homo Ludens -- Paideia's revenge -- FINAL REMARKS Futile pursuits: play and the production of space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.