an architectural and urban history of recreation and leisure P�erez de Arce, Rodrigo creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2018 monographic eng 1 online resource. City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city. From playgrounds to theme parks, skittle alleys to swimming pools, to the countless uncontrolled spaces which the urban habitat affords - play is by no means just a childhood affair. A myriad essentially unproductive playful pursuits have, through time, modelled the modern city and landscape. Architect and scholar Rodrigo Perez de Arce's erudite, original, and often surprising study explores a curiously neglected dimension of architectural design and practice: ludic space. It is an architectural history of the playground - from the hippodrome to the Situationist city - of space released from productive ends in the pursuit of leisure. But this is more than just a book about how architecture has incorporated play into its spaces and structures, it is a history of the modern city itself. The ludic imagination impregnated modernist ideals, and what begins with the playground ends with a re-consideration of the whole sweep of the modern movement through the filter of leisure and play. Because play is such a basic or fundamental human experience, the book re-grounds the architect's concerns with those of non-architects - and not only those of adults but also of children. It seeks to give everyone - architects and other ordinary city-dwellers alike - a better understanding about what is at stake in the making of the public spaces of our cities. Rodrigo P�erez de Arce. Includes bibliographical references. Architecture and recreation Space (Architecture) Psychological aspects Architecture and recreation Space (Architecture) Psychological aspects ARCHITECTURE / Adaptive Reuse & Renovation ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice ARCHITECTURE / Reference NA2543.R43 P47 2018eb 720.1/03 P�erez de Arce, Rodrigo. New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018 (DLC) 2017045964 (OCoLC)990289016 9781350032156 1350032158 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1788873 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1788873 N$T 180413 20200702121301.0 on1031214569 eng