Title From a cause to a style : modernist architecture's encounter with the American city / Nathan Glazer.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary	Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In From a Cause to a Style, he proclaims his disappointment with modernism and its impact on the American city. Writing in the tradition of legendary American architectural critics Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, Glazer contends that modernism, this new urban form that signaled not just a radical revolution in style but.
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Subject	Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Architecture and society.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	City planning.
	City planning -- Social aspects -- United States.
	City planning -- Social aspects.
	Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Modernism (Aesthetics)
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
	Electronic books -- History.
Other Form:	Print version: Glazer, Nathan. From a cause to a style. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691129570 0691129576 (DLC) 2006028071 (OCoLC)71266394
ISBN	9781400827589 (electronic book)
	1400827582 (electronic book)
	1282157930
	9781282157934
	9780691129570 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	0691129576 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Title From a cause to a style : modernist architecture's encounter with the American city / Nathan Glazer.

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