Happy : cities and public happiness in post-war Europe / Cor Wagenaar (ed.).

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Happy : cities and public happiness in post-war Europe / Cor Wagenaar (ed.).

Publication:

Description:

512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Eliminating the traces of the war -- Socialist-realist palaces for the common man -- Science, technology, and the international style -- The new community -- A car for everyone -- Consumerism -- Rise and fall of the counter cultural commune -- The city as a catalyst of revolution -- Festivals -- Monuments -- Beach cities -- Re-inventing the European city?

Summary:

This book "is the result of a fascinating expedition, carried out by more than twenty reporters who travelled the entire European continent, from Finland to Portugal, from Italy to Ireland, from the Ural to the Atlantic. Most of them architects, town planners, historians and sociologists, they collected dozens of icons, representing public happiness in Europe. Each icon tells a story on one of the milestones in the continuous process of change characteristic for the European city. [This book] reads as a travelogue about a mysterious country, a guide to cities unheard of, and an introduction to a curious world where people lead their lives in unfamiliar ways. Many of these cities have been forgotten. They disappeared behind the iron curtain, or were alienated from us by the joint forces of politics, geography and the history of modernism. Excavating them, rediscovering broken links, the reporters found themselves engaged in a wonderful adventure that has only just begun"--Back cover

ISBN:

9056624083 (paperback)
9789056624088 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Europe History 20th century.
Architecture and society Europe History 20th century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) Europe.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Europe.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Architecture and society.
City planning.
Lebensfreude
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtforschung
Wohlstandsgesellschaft
Nachkriegsgeneration
Bouwkunst.
Gebouwen.
Stadscultuur.
Geluk.
City planning Europe
Architecture Europe 20th century
Cities and towns Europe.
Europe.
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wagenaar, Cor.

Cities and public happiness in post-war Europe

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234628
Call No.: HT169.E8 H3 2004
Status: External loan

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