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From a cause to a style : modernist architecture's encounter with the American city

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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ISBN: 6612157933
ISBN: 9786612157936
ISBN: 0691129576
ISBN: 9780691129570
ISBN: 9781282157934
ISBN: 1282157930
ISBN: 1400827582
ISBN: 9781400827589
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)
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Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.