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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of(...)
City on a hill: urban idealism in America from the puritans to the present
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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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Lavishly illustrated overview of three decades of Maki's work including excerpts from the architect's essay "Investigations in Collective Form". Disponible en format relié au coût de 84,00$.
Architecture, monographies
septembre 1997, New York
Fumihiko Maki : buildings and projects
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Lavishly illustrated overview of three decades of Maki's work including excerpts from the architect's essay "Investigations in Collective Form". Disponible en format relié au coût de 84,00$.
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septembre 1997, New York
Architecture, monographies