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Modernism and the spirit of the city /

"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe"--Publisher description
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.
ISBN:9781135158675
1135158673
9780203857656
0203857658
1135158665
9781135158668