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In order to establish his history of urban architecture as a science, Lavedan needed to define a position for it among all of the other disciplines for which the town was an object of interest in the early 20th century (geography, sociology, economics, history, etc.). He chose to focus on one aspect of urban studies which, in his view, had been largely ignored in other disciplines: the notion of the plan from the perspective of material elements (road traces, arrangement and specialization of different districts, design of public squares and parks). However, given the proximity of this approach to geography, Lavedan chose to focus only on urban plans with a certain esthetic value, considered from an artistic perspective, in order to “establish, with respect to related disciplines, the possibility of an independent discipline in the history of urban architecture, written from a purely artistic and esthetic perspective” (Lavedan 1926a, p. 7)ssss1. It was plans of this type that Lavedan selected for publication in later collections (Lavedan 1926b, 1941).