Re-Centring the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic Software eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London UCL Press 2020.
Series:Fringe (UCL Press)
Subjects:
1900-2099
City planning.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture, Modern > 21st century.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Architecture, Modern.
Villes > Croissance.
Architecture > 21e siècle.
Architecture > 20e siècle.
suburban growth.
urban sprawl.
City & town planning > architectural aspects.
Urban communities.
Sociology & anthropology.
Political science & theory.
Urban economics.
Urban & municipal planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Architecture, Modern
Cities and towns > Growth
City planning
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