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This edited collection offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history, disputing the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looking to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.
A Comprehensive History of the Architectural Design Projects that Defined India
Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history. Winner of the 2011 Allen Noble Book Award from the Pioneer America Society: Best edited book in North American material culture.
Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the "Wall era," to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities.
Zeynep Kezer offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s.
Sun-Young Park reveals how anxieties about health and social order created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology.
The History of Aided Self-Help Housing in Peru
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers.
Sheds new light on the construction and impact of race on architecture across the world since the eighteenth century.
Espousing current theories about systems and rational process planning and using cutting edge computer technology, the new plan left behind the dream for a functionalist Belgrade and instead focused on managing growth trends.
Explores parallels between the development of racial and architectural thinking, tracing the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern architectural theorists.
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