The Disciplinary City in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Fournier, Corinne (2005). The Disciplinary City in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. In: Spurr, David; Tschichold, Cornelia (eds.) The Space of English. SPELL: Vol. 17 (pp. 139-151). Tübingen: Gunter Narr

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The birth of city planning in the middle of the nineteenth century at first appears to have been a necessary response to population growth and to changes in modes of transportation. However, city planning may also be regarded as a response to the needs of established institutions to find ways of governing and surveying the population besides those of violence or the threat of punishment. This paper discusses three methods used to create the new disciplinary city: the increase in open space, the recourse to historicist styles, and the emergence of a transparent architecture.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of French Language and Literature

UniBE Contributor:

Fournier Kiss, Corinne

Subjects:

800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 840 French & related literatures
400 Language > 440 French & related languages
700 Arts > 710 Landscaping & area planning
700 Arts > 720 Architecture

ISSN:

0940-0478

ISBN:

3-8233-6122-8

Series:

SPELL

Publisher:

Gunter Narr

Language:

English

Submitter:

Corinne Ingrid Fournier Kiss

Date Deposited:

04 Jun 2020 14:00

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:38

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.144273

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/144273

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