Psarra, S;
(2021)
Festival cities – culture, planning and urban life
by John Gold and Margaret Gold, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 336 pp., £35 (paperback).
[Review].
Planning Perspectives
, 36
(6)
pp. 1319-1322.
10.1080/02665433.2021.1993079.
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Abstract
On 15 July 1989, the rock band Pink Floyd held a concert in Venice, performing from a floating platform in the Bacino (Basin), the area in front of the Piazza San Marco, the most acclaimed space in the Venetian lagoon. More than 200,000 people filled the Piazza and the waterfront of the Riva degli Schiavoni, while many precariously thronged on boats that were moored in the Basin. Coinciding with the Feast of the Redeemer – the Redentore – inaugurated in 1578 to celebrate the end of a terrible plague – the concert was a spectacular event in a tradition of floating theatres, processions and mock battles that have been celebrating the identity of the amphibious city over the centuries.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Festival cities – culture, planning and urban life by John Gold and Margaret Gold, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 336 pp., £35 (paperback) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02665433.2021.1993079 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2021.1993079 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136297 |
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