Main entry:

Lehnerer, Alex, author.

Title & Author:

The Western town : a theory of aggregation / Alex Lehnerer, Jared Macken, Jayne Kelley, Lorenzo Stieger ; with a preface by Robert E. Somol.

Publication:

Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, [2013]
©2013

Description:

175 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: Backed Fronts And Textured Figures -- Agry Town -- Tonto -- Rio Bravo -- The Town As Household And The Hideout -- Old Agry's Hideout -- Peak Hideout -- Hole-in-the-Wall -- Kind Of Structures -- Fort Grant -- Durango -- LaHood -- Hadleyville -- Sweetwater -- The Weak Plan -- Lago -- Presbyterian Church -- Roadhouse -- Bear Paw -- Rawness And Ruin -- The Alamo -- Mountain Tradepost -- Little Corner Train Station -- The Stranger -- El Indio's Hideout -- San Miguel -- Tin Pan Settlement.

Summary:

The Western town of roughly 1860-90 exists in an ephemeral moment of American history ... these towns vanished entirely from the prairie by the end of the nineteenth century. Yet even today, everyone has visited these towns, since they survive in their abstract and distilled form through the plot-generating sets of Western movies ... a clichéd but consistent host of characteristics and characters ... 22 towns in the Wild West are the protagonists in this book, including famous places like El Paso, Rio Bravo, and Lahood - not as clichés, but as constructed reality. Detailed maps offer a previously non-existent overview of spatial contexts and form the basis for an intensive exploration of architecture and urban planning. The culture of the "city without a future" in the American West between 1860 and 1900 has been maintained in the films out of which it arises. This architectural analysis does not attempt to nostalgically reactivate the Western town, but uses it instead as a vehicle to critique contemporary phenomena in terms of infrastructure, the link between architecture and city, and the role of urban planning - after the Stranger persuaded the residents of Lago to paint the whole town red, he declared himself ready to protect it from the approaching gunmen. With maps of the towns from the following films (selected): 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964), 'Buchanan Rides Alone' (1958), 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965), 'Fort Apache' (1948).

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783775736596 (hbk.)
377573659X (hbk.)

Subject:

City planning Southwest, New.
Cities and towns Southwest, New.
Villes États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Architektur
Filmarchitektur
Stadt
Stadtentwicklung
Western
Stadsplanering.
New Southwest.
Frontier

Form/genre:

Beispielsammlung.

Added entries:

Kelley, Jayne, author.
Macken, Jared, author.
Stieger, Lorenzo, author.
Somol, Robert, writer of preface.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285606
Call No.: BIB 225303
Status: Available