Architecture, Festival and the City (Paperback)

Introduction: The Question of Festival in the third Millennium Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne Part I: The Festival in History 1. Festival! Come Talk Politics with Socrates and his Alter-Ego the Athenian Stranger! Renee Tobe 2. ‘Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97’ Susan Janet May 3. Reading the Accession Day Tilts and Whitehall Palace in relation to the Elizabethan Notion of ‘Lost Sense of Sight’ Constance Constance Lau 4. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design Nicholas Temple 5. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century France Iara Alejandra Dundas 6. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s Vanity Fair ? Fireworks and the massacre in the Rue Royale Maja Zorica 7. On Festival and Failure Mari Hvattum Part II: The Festival Through History 8. Score and Script: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri Raymond Lucas 9. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual as Civic order Christian Frost 10. Festival Mob Games within the Urban Context Luke Nagle 11. The Situational Scenography of the Surrealist City: de Chirico and Breton Dagmar Motycka Weston 12. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed Grace Alexandra Williams 13. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street Jasmine Shahin Part III: Meaning in the Modern Festival 14. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain Paola Zanotto 15. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster ‘71 Festival Sarah Anne Lappin & Una Walker 16. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 Brian Ward & Boyd Gary 17. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai, Sardinia David Chandler 18. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People, the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale Simone Shu-Yeng Chung 19. (De)stabilising History: Event as an Operative Tool of Power in Belgrade Nikolina Bobic 20.Tahrir Square’s Festive Imagination Hazem Ziada