Main entry:

Bastéa, Eleni.

Title & Author:

The creation of modern Athens : planning the myth / Eleni Bastéa.

Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-273) and index.
1. Athens, 1834 -- 2. Modern Greece: Between History and Myth -- 3. "From Barbarity to Civilization": Planning the Modern Greek State -- 4. Planning New Athens -- 5. After the Grand Designs -- 6. Building the Capital -- 7. Fin-de-Siecle Athens.

Summary:

"The Creation of Modern Athens: Planning the Myth is the first book to examine the urban development of Athens in the nineteenth century. By following two parallel processes - the building of the new capital and the construction of a new national Greek identity - Bastea demonstrates that Athens's elaborate urban design and civic architecture, although initiated by foreign-trained architects, reflected both international neoclassical ideals as well as the national aspirations of the modern Greek nation."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0521641209 (hc.)
9780521641203 (hc.)

Subject:

City planning Greece Athens History 19th century.
Nationalism and architecture Greece Athens.
Urbanisme Grèce Athènes Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture Grèce Athènes.
Buildings
City planning
Nationalism and architecture
Architektur
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Stedenbouw.
Athens (Greece) Buildings, structures, etc.
Athènes (Grèce) Constructions
Greece Athens
Athen

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209659
Call No.: NA9202.A8 B3 2000
Status: Available