The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília / James Holston.

Main entry:

Holston, James.

Title & Author:

The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília / James Holston.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Description:

xiv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-357) and index.
Premises and paradoxes -- Blueprint utopia -- The plan's hidden agenda -- The death of the street -- Typologies of order, work, and residence -- Rights to the city -- Cities of rebellion -- The Brazilianization of Brasilia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

The utopian design and organization of Brasília - the modernist new capital of Brazil - were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, the author analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, the author presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city. [publisher].

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ISBN:

0226349780 (alk. paper)
9780226349787 (alk. paper)
0226349799 (pbk.)
9780226349794 (pbk.)

Subject:

New towns Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
City planning Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Urban anthropology Case studies.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and society Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal) History 20th century.
Planificación urbana Brasil.
Antropología urbana Estudio con casos.
Arquitectura moderna Siglo XX.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Villes nouvelles Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Anthropologie urbaine Cas, Études de.
Architecture 20e siècle Aspect social Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Urbanisme Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Anthropologie urbaine Études de cas.
Architecture et société Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal) Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
City planning.
New towns.
Social conditions
Urban anthropology.
Stadsplanning.
Architecture Brésil Brasília (Brésil)
Urbanisme Brésil Brasília (Brésil)
Villes nouvelles Brésil Brasilia.
Architecture et société Brésil Brasilia.
Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil) Social conditions.
Brasilia Condiciones sociales.
Brasília (Brésil) Conditions économiques.
Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Brasília
Brasília (Brésil) Conditions sociales.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 53069
Call No.: ID:90-B1837
Status: Available

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