City of Play

City of Play
Author: Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1350032158

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 Pérez 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.

City Play

City Play
Author: Amanda Dargan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813515779

The authors draw on two centuries of images by New York's great photographers, as well as oral histories, diaries, reminiscences and interviews with children and adults about children's play. Teachers will find it useful for stimulating discussion about how children and adults use and adapt their environments for play.

Play the City. Games Informing the Urban Development

Play the City. Games Informing the Urban Development
Author: Ekim Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9789490322878

A new book by Play the City. From Cape Town to Amsterdam to Istanbul, the book sheds light into the particular applications and outcomes of City Gaming in diverse planning and city making regimes worldwide. Following Ekim Tan's PhD work on city gaming, this book has been designed to make her research more accessible to all. The book features a chapter dedicated to unravelling the city-gaming method as developed by the Play the City teams, with case studies from Shenzhen, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Almere and Istanbul. In addition to Play the City's work, the book includes reviews of select influential city-games from around the world, and is enriched with personal interviews from gaming experts such as Eric Gordon, Pablo Suarez and Mohini Dutta.0.

Ground-up City Play

Ground-up City Play
Author: Liane Lefaivre
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2007
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9064506027

Bulletin ...

Bulletin ...
Author: Ohio State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1911
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

The City of Denver

The City of Denver
Author: Denver (Colo.). City and County
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1913
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Play from Birth to Twelve

Play from Birth to Twelve
Author: Doris Pronin Fromberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136080023

In light of recent standards-based and testing movements, the issue of play in childhood has taken on increased meaning for educational professionals and social scientists. This second edition of Play From Birth to Twelve offers comprehensive coverage of what we now know about play, its guiding principles, its dynamics and importance in early learning. These up-to-date essays, written by some of the most distinguished experts in the field, help students explore: all aspects of play, including new approaches not yet covered in the literature how teachers in various classroom situations set up and guide play to facilitate learning how play is affected by societal violence, media reportage, technological innovations and other contemporary issues which areas of play have been studied adequately and which require further research.