Title The transparent state : architecture and politics in postwar Germany / Deborah Ascher Barnstone.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) : illustrations, portraits
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.
Summary	'The Transparent State' studies how the idea of transparency, a metaphor borrowed from political thought became an analogy for democratic architecture in postwar West Germany & led to the prevailing belief that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility & greater democracy.
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Subject	Architecture and state -- Germany.
	Architecture and state.
	Germany.
	Public buildings -- Germany.
	Public buildings.
	Transparency in architecture -- Germany.
	Transparency in architecture.
	Transparency in government -- Germany.
	Transparency in government.
	Germany -- History -- 1945-
	History.
Chronological Term	1945-
	Since 1945
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Public facilities.
Other Form:	Print version: Barnstone, Deborah Ascher. Transparent state. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415700183 0415700191 (DLC) 2004008251 (OCoLC)54974392
ISBN	9780203799888 (electronic book)
	0203799887 (electronic book)
	0415700191 (Paper)
	0203799887 (Paper)
	0415700183 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)