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• Aspetti sociali della gladiatura romana / Gian Luca Gregori
• Spartaco: il personaggio, il mito, la vicenda / Silvia Bussi, Daniele Foraboschi
• Gli anfiteatri a Roma prima del Colosseo / Filippo Coarelli
• La valle del Colosseo prima del Colosseo e la Meta Sudans / Clementina Panella
• L'anfiteatro di Roma: note strutturali e di funzionamento / Rossella Rea
• Il passaggio sotterraneo cosiddetto di Commodo / Irene Iacopi
• I loca del Colosseo / Silvia Orlandi
• I modelli del Colosseo / Gianluca Schingo
• Il modello ligneo dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, di Carlo Lucangeli: osservazioni nel corso di restauro / Cinzia Conti
• Un anfiteatro di corte: il Castrense / Mariarosaria Barbera
• Ludus gladiatorius / Filippo Coarelli
• L'armamento e le classi dei gladiatori / Filippo Coarelli
• Gladiatori a Pompei / Fabrizio Pesando
• La giornata di spettacoli / Cinzia Vismara
• Il Colosseo, teatro per gli spettacoli di caccia: le fonti e i reperti / Rossella Rea
• Gli animali per la venatio: cattura, trasporto, custodia / Rossella Rea
• I sotterranei del Colosseo: impianto, trasformazioni e funzionamento / Heinz-Jürgen Beste
• La documentazione degli scavi napoleonici dell'arena nei rilievi di Luigi Maria Valadier / Gianluca Schingo
• Catalogo / schede a cura di Raffaella Bosso e Valeria Moesch
• La valle prima del Colosseo
• I Flavi e la costruzione del Colosseo
• Architettura e arredi degli anfiteatri campani e del Colosseo
• Gli spettacoli
• Bibliografia generale / a cura di Raffaella Bosso e Valeria Moesch.

• Editoral (Helen Castle) About the Guest-editor (David Littlefield) Introduction (Re)generation: Place, Memory, Identity (David Littlefield) The Global Architectural Influences on London (Murray Fraser) London Bridge / The Shard (Edward Denison) Approaches to Regeneration (Peter Bishop) King's Cross (David Littlefield) The London Way: The Politics of London's Strategic Design (Matthew Carmona) Bankside Urban Forest (David Littlefield) Neo Bankside (Matthew Gandy) Urban Regeneration as Self-Organisation (Michael Batty) Olympic Park, Stratford (Hattie Hartman) What is a City? (Austin Williams) White City: the Art of Erasure and Forgetting the Olympic Games (David Littlefield) A New Overground Line and the Sense of Place (Robert Harbison) Battersea / Nine Elms (Edward Denison) The Role of the Estates: From Agriculture to Urbiculture (Sir Terry Farrell) Trompes L'Oeil (Mike Devereux) The Power of the Image (Louis Rice) Centring on the Olympic Fringe (Steven Tomlinson) The Thames (Sir Richard MacCormac) Some Key Figures in London's Regeneration (Peter Murray) Elephant and Castle (David Littlefield) Works In/on//Around///Behind Progress (Hilary Powell) Where Does the City end?? (Matthew Gandy).
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A lively, thought-provoking exploration of the contemporary regeneration of London Plans to regenerate East London and transform the capital are integral to the vision of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This title brings into focus notions of regeneration within the specific context of London: what does the term actually mean, how has it been applied and is it being applied? Historical overviews of large-scale interventions from the past are combined with case studies of new and planned schemes, and explorations of how change and rejuvenation can retain or enhance the city's unique sense of place and identity. Looking beyond the Games, the title will look at the direction in which regeneration is going in a post-recession economy. How can a long-established, highly protected and even cherished city, like London, continue to renew and expand? Unlike Chinese or Middle Eastern cities, London is constrained by a wide range of factors from heritage protection and geography to finance and democratic accountability; yet the city continues to grow, change and develop, either incrementally or through big, dramatic leaps, like the Olympic Park and King's Cross. In this way, London provides a fascinating case study of how a developed, Western city can negotiate and greet the pressures for change. Contributors: Michael Batty, Peter Bishop, Matthew Carmona, Murray Fraser, Matthew Gandy, Robert Harbison, Peter Murray and Austin Williams Architects: Sir Terry Farrell, Richard McCormac Projects: King's Cross, the London 2012 Games and the Shard.
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• Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Exhibitionist State
• 1. Diplomatic Spectacles: Mexico Displays Itself at World's Fairs
• 2. Archaeologies of Power: Assembling the Museo Nacional de Antropologia
• 3. Image Machines: Mexico '68's "Old" and "New" Sports Facilities
• 4. Total Design of an Olympic Metropolis
• 5. Subterranean Scenographies: Time Travel at the Mexico City Metro Epilogue: Olympic Afterlives Notes Bibliography Index.
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In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico\u2019s arrival in the developed world. In Spectacular Mexico, Luis M. Casta\u00f1eda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and ultimately to guide the nation\u2019s capital into becoming the powerful megacity we know today. Not only the first Latin American country to host the Olympics, but also the first Spanish-speaking country, Mexico\u2019s architectural transformation was put on international display. From traveling exhibitions of indigenous archaeological artifacts to the construction of the Mexico City subway, Spectacular Mexico details how these key projects placed the nation on the stage of global capitalism and revamped its status as a modernized country. Surveying works of major architects such as F\u00e9lix Candela, Pedro Ram\u00edrez V\u00e1zquez, Ricardo Legorreta, and graphic designer Lance Wyman, Casta\u00f1eda illustrates the use of architecture and design as instruments of propaganda and nation branding. Forming a kind of \u201cimage economy, \u201d Mexico\u2019s architectural projects and artifacts were at the heart of the nation\u2019s economic growth and cultivated a new mass audience at an international level. Through an examination of one of the most important cosmopolitan moments in Mexico\u2019s history, Spectacular Mexico positions architecture as central to the negotiation of social, economic, and political relations.
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The 2000 Olympics in Sydney features the largest number of purpose-built stadia ever produced for an Olympic games, and is centred within the Sydney metropolis. This text records every step of the construction of these buildings, from the original briefing of the architects through all phases of design and construction up to the final hand-over. Separate essays by architectural commentators discuss the major stadia and the book also includes plans, cross-sections and details of the architects and construction companies involved.
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