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Monacelli Press
Language
English
Pages
368

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The scenes of the street and other essays
2011, Monacelli Press
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Table of Contents

The scenes of the street : transformations in ideal and reality, 1750-1871
Transparency and utopia : constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault
Architecture, management, and morals : the design of a factory community at the end of the eighteenth century
Mercier as urbanist : the utopia of the real
The paradoxes of vandalism : Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian discourse on historical monuments
Building the urban book : Nodier in the library
X marks the spot : the obelisk in space
Paris démoli/Paris futur
The new industrial world : the reconstruction of urban utopia in late-nineteenth-century France
The modern acropolis : Tony Garnier from La cité antique to Une cité industrielle
The idea of unity and Le Corbusier's urban form
The space of history : modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier
Photourbanism : planning the city from above and below
Unknown lands : Guy Debord and the cartographies of a landscape to be invented
Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
711/.40944
Library of Congress
NA9197 .V54 2011, NA2500

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368 p. :
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25008226M
ISBN 10
1580932703
ISBN 13
9781580932707
LCCN
2010041973
OCLC/WorldCat
426793555

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