A city at the end of the world / V.B. Price ; photographs by Kirk Gittings.

Main entry:

Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett), author.

Title & Author:

A city at the end of the world / V.B. Price ; photographs by Kirk Gittings.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1992]
©1992

Description:

xvi, 171 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.
The value of locality -- Time and place -- Reputation and identity -- Albuquerque and Santa Fe -- Modernism and regionalism -- A city of open spaces -- A spiritual region -- A city of Babel -- A city at the end of the world.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"This impassioned book is a loving description and critique of Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... Familiar to many New Mexicans through the columns and articles he was written for periodicals over the years, Price distills in this book his philosophy of what makes Albuquerque such an attractive place to live and shows us how to keep it that way."--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

082631371X
9780826313713

Subject:

Architecture New Mexico Albuquerque Themes, motives.
Architecture Nouveau-Mexique Albuquerque Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture Themes, motives
Buildings
urbanisme Albuquerque (Etats-Unis)
architecture Albuquerque (Etats-Unis)
Albuquerque (N.M.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New Mexico Albuquerque

Added entries:

Gittings, Kirk, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87258
Call No.: ID:93-B2063
Status: Available

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