Bridges in the townscape – poetics of the image
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Agata Bonenberg
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Venice 2010 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 894-895 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2010 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137810796064273 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The bond between built environment and community is the essence of a city as a system. A system of bridges plays an important role as a visible sign and manifestation of adapting surroundings according to people’s needs and ambitions. In the following paper I discuss major determinants of perception of a bridge in a townscape, and subsequently, the poetics of this image. My paper concentrates on the following aspects: bridge as a source of information about urban space, as a factor of a cultural identity giving sense of territory, a symbol of prestige and an image of a place. |
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| Keywords: |
identity landmarks perception territorial behaviour
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