"Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The free institution -- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project -- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control -- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland -- Spaces -- Boundaries.
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