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From a cause to a style modernist architecture's encounter with the American city /

Main Author: Glazer, Nathan.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Architecture and society > History > 20th century. > United States
City planning > History > 20th century. > United States
City planning > Social aspects > United States.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > History > 20th century. > United States
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10312533
Table of Contents:
  • Building for the public : what has gone wrong?
  • The prince, the people, and the architects
  • "Subverting the context" : Olmsted's parks and Serra's sculpture
  • Monuments in an age without heroes
  • Modernism and classicism on the National Mall
  • Daniel P. Moynihan and federal architecture
  • What happened in East Harlem
  • Amenity in New York City
  • Planning for New York City : is it possible?
  • What has happened to the city planner?
  • The social agenda of architecture.

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