Lhasa : streets with memories /

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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barnett, Robert, 1953- (Author)
Other Authors: Diemberger, Karen (Illustrator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Series:Asia perspectives.
Subjects:
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Travel.
Architektur.
Tourismus.
Geschichte.
Stadtplanung.
Kultur.
Lhasa (China)
Lhasa (China) > Description and travel.
China > Lhasa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The unitary view
  • Foreign visitors, oscillations, and extremes
  • The square view and the outstretched demoness
  • The city, the circle
  • Monumental statements and street plans
  • From concrete to blue glass
  • The new flamboyance and the Tibetan palm tree
  • Mestizo : two narratives converge
  • The multilayered streets.

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