
Architecture & Design • Monographs
Radmila Matejčić, a Croatian archaeologist and art historian, in her cult monograph How to Read a City: Rijeka Yesterday, Today provides an in-depth guide through the urban evolution of Rijeka, a city at the crossroads of sea and mountains, a symbol of a
The book, a kind of urban textbook, combines historical, sociological, urban and cultural approaches in order to "read" the city as a text full of hidden signs - from ancient Tarsatica to the modern cosmopolitan center of Kvarner.
Matejčić chronicles the growth of Rijeka from a Roman settlement to a medieval trading center under the Habsburgs, Hungarian and Italian rule, to a 19th-century in...
Adamić, 2007.Hardcover.