Modern Architecture in Mexico City

Kathryn E O'Rourke

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights d... Lees meer

Second Suburb

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 13
• Carved from eight square miles of Bucks County farmland northeast of Philadelphia, Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a symbol of postwar suburbia and the fu... Lees meer

Race and Modern Architecture

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Although race--a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination--has played a critical role in the development of mo... Lees meer

Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin

Emily Pugh

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 13
• On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed ba... Lees meer

Ideals of the Body

Sun-Young Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteen... Lees meer

Improvised Cities

Helen Gyger

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute hou... Lees meer

Designing Tito's Capital

Brigitte Le Normand

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 13
• The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportu... Lees meer

Building Character

Charles L Davis II

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for rela... Lees meer

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

Itohan Osayimwese

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 15
• Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affec... Lees meer

Governing by Design

Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 13
• Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the desig... Lees meer

Race and Modern Architecture

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Although race--a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination--has played a critical role in the development of mo... Lees meer

Building Modern Turkey

Zeynep Kezer

• Paperback | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment | nr. 13
• Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multire... Lees meer

The Architecture of Good Behavior

Joy Knoblauch

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed... Lees meer

Neoliberalism on the Ground

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has bee... Lees meer

Of Greater Dignity Than Riches

Farhan Karim

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s--after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease-... Lees meer

Re-Collecting Black Hawk

Nicholas Brown, Sarah Kanouse

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper Midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs ... Lees meer

Building Character

Charles L Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for rela... Lees meer