How the Greeks Built Cities

by Richard Ernest Wycherley

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Genres: History, Architecture, Nonfiction

235 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Kubilay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oldukça teknik bir kitap. Şehir plancıları, arkeologlar, mimarlar için iyi olabilir. Ben antropolojik ve tarihi bir bakış aradığım için tatmin etmedi.

Pimapen Kültürevi sponsor olmuş taa 1993'te, ilginç geldi.

[Elif Kavak · Rating 2 out of 5]

bir mimarlık lisans öğrencisi olarak bir dersim için faydalandım. bilgi birikimi konusunda tatmin edici dolu bir kitap olsa da aktarımda sıkıntılar vardı bence. yani bir çok bilgiyi aynı anda vermeye çalışırken yazar karışık bir aktarımda bulunmuştu. ancak antik çağa ve kent oluşumuna ilgisi olanların birçok şey öğreneceği bir kitap olacaktır.

[Frank Stein · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book presents a side of the Greeks that I never learned from their histories or plays.

While they will probably always have a reputation as preternaturally rational and logical, the Greeks in building their cities were preeminently slap-dash and ad hoc. They did probably "invent" the gridded street system in the Western world, but decisions about where to place their temples, agoras, and stadium were always dependent on mere convenience and not comprehensive design.

Where do you put a theater? Where the hill slopes gently enough to allow for seating. The Stadium? Preferably a hollow where two hills meet so each side can have seating. Gymnasiums are on the outskirts of the city because they take up space. Shrines and temples in the agora are crowded into whatever few inches of ground can be spared by the fish mongers. This is another kind of rationality of course, one based on use of what is at hand and minimal effort, but it certainly contrasts with the strict Cardo and a Decumanus of the Romans,with a forum in the exact center of the city and shrines arranged throughout.

The book provides a very important, and rarely witnessed, perspective on Ancient Greece, and on how their cities influenced their civilization.

[Midori · Rating 2 out of 5]

The content of the book is simple but at the same time brilliant: even now, you rarely find this kind of general handbooks. The author describes each one of the main features of the Greek polis/city: acropolis, agora, temple, stoa, theatre, gymnasium, stadium, fountain house... they are all there. He explains them neatly though it seems that even in his abstract definitions, he has a specific acropolis, agora, temple etc. etc. in his mind. Athens looms large in his work- no wonder, he later wrote the Stones of Athens- and unfortunately, Athens is the most atypical city in the Greek world. Data on the Royal stoa of Athens- then (1950's) confused with the Stoa of Zeus Liberator- must be corrected together with the misleading pan-Minoan interpretation of the Mycenean culture.

[Zenithgeist · Rating 4 out of 5]

Antik Cag'daki Hellen kentciligini anlayabilmek icin temel kaynaklardan biri. Kentin icerisindeki mimari unsurlarin belirli nedenlere dayali ve birbirlerine bagli olarak yerlestirildigini anlamlandirmaniza olanak sagliyor.

[Halil Ibrahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Antik dönem özellikle Yunan dünyasında kentlerin oluşumu planlanması ve yaşamın nasıl kentlerde canlandığına dair güzel bir eser.