| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index. |
| Contents |
From locus genii to heart of the city : embracing the spirit of the city / Volker M. Welter -- Straight or crooked streets? The contested rational spirit of the modern metropolis / David Frisby -- August Endell : the spirit and the beauty of the city / Helge David -- Embodying the spirit of the metropolis : the Warenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, 1896-1904 / Helen Shiner -- The Hamburg Bismarck as city crown and national monument / Karen Lang -- The lantern and the glass : on the themes of renewal and dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist art and architecture / Dagmar Motycka Weston -- 'Cities more fair to become the dwelling place of Thy children' : transcendent modernity in British urban reconstruction / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- Privet : theologies of privacy in some modernist urbanism / Rob Stone -- Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt, and the reconstruction of Cologne / Rudolf Stegers. |
| Summary |
"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe"--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City planning -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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City planning. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Modern movement (Architecture) -- Europe -- Congresses.
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Modern movement (Architecture) |
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City and town life -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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City and town life. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Modernism and the spirit of the city. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2003 0415258405 (DLC) 2002155376 (OCoLC)51265997 |
| ISBN |
9781135158675 (electronic book) |
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1135158673 (electronic book) |
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0415258405 |
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9780415258401 |
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0415258413 |
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9780415258418 |
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