Hluboké město - Moderní metropole jako druhý Řím – Kalina Pavel (2019)

Deep City Pavel Kalina Published 03.07.2019 "Although this book mainly discusses how cities looked in the past," the author writes in the introduction, "the real question it poses is how the city will look in the coming millennium." The book addresses the inexhaustible symbolic wealth of cities, creating a stable framework for the lives of their inhabitants. The "Deep City," which often draws its semantic depth from imaginary relationships with ancient Rome, allows for maximum communication and social interactions. European historical cities generally belong to this type of city, but due to the strengthening tourism industry and development projects, their "depth" is fading, and these cities face the threat of communicative and social "flatness." In addition to chapters dedicated to Rome, Venice, Berlin, Istanbul, New York, Prague, and other cities, the book also evaluates several key building types – shopping centers, stadiums, museums, libraries, and churches – precisely from the perspective of their ability to create or, conversely, suppress historical memory. As the author suggests, the foundation for the journey to the city of the future should be a constant and immensely complex balancing act between the relative chaotic emergence and development of cities on one side and purposeful and...