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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes,(...)
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes,(...)
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Stories from architecture: Behind the lines at Drawing Matter
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.
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Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In ''Stories from architecture,'' Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.
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October 2021
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to(...)
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
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The details of modern architecture volume 2 : 1928 to 1988
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to general principles. There are over 500 illustrations, including 130 original photographs and 230 original axonometric drawings, arranged to explain the technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of the building form. Most of the modern movements in architecture have identified some paradigm of good construction, arguing that buildings should be built like Gothic cathedrals, like airplanes, like automobiles, like ships, or like primitive dwellings. Ford examines the degree to which these models were followed, either in spirit or in form, and reveals much about both the theories and techniques of modern architecture, including the extent to which the current constructional theories of high tech and deconstruction are dependent on the traditional modernist paradigms, as well as the ways in which all of these theories differ from the realities of modern building. Individual chapters treat the work of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, as well as the Case Study, high tech, postmodern, and deconstructivist architects. Among the individual buildings documented are Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook School, Asplund's Woodland Cemetery, Fuller's Dymaxion house, the Venturi house, the Eames and other Case Study houses, the concrete buildings of Le Corbusier, Aalto's Säynätsalo Town Hall, and Kahn's Exeter Library and Salk Institute.
The details of modern architecture volume 2 : 1928 to 1988
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This second volume of "The details of modern architecture" continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to general principles. There are over 500 illustrations, including 130 original photographs and 230 original axonometric drawings, arranged to explain the technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of the building form. Most of the modern movements in architecture have identified some paradigm of good construction, arguing that buildings should be built like Gothic cathedrals, like airplanes, like automobiles, like ships, or like primitive dwellings. Ford examines the degree to which these models were followed, either in spirit or in form, and reveals much about both the theories and techniques of modern architecture, including the extent to which the current constructional theories of high tech and deconstruction are dependent on the traditional modernist paradigms, as well as the ways in which all of these theories differ from the realities of modern building. Individual chapters treat the work of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, as well as the Case Study, high tech, postmodern, and deconstructivist architects. Among the individual buildings documented are Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook School, Asplund's Woodland Cemetery, Fuller's Dymaxion house, the Venturi house, the Eames and other Case Study houses, the concrete buildings of Le Corbusier, Aalto's Säynätsalo Town Hall, and Kahn's Exeter Library and Salk Institute.
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October 2003, Cambridge, Mass.
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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Uncommon ground : architecture, technology. and topography
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
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May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
May 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in (...)
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Architectural Theory
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October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Uncommon ground : architecture, technology, and topography
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
Uncommon ground : architecture, technology, and topography
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Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground", David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations, architects used these elements to modulate the environment. Leatherbarrow shows how the role of walls, the traditional element of architectural definition and platform partition, became less significant than that of the platforms themselves, the floors, ceilings, and intermediate levels. He shows how frontality was replaced by the building's four-sided extension into its surroundings, resulting in frontal configurations previously characteristic of the back. Arguing that the boundary between inside and outside was radically redefined, Leatherbarrow challenges cherished notions about the autonomy of the architectural object and about regional coherence. Modern architectural topography, he suggests, is an interplay of buildings, landscapes, and cities, as well as the humans who use them. The conflict between technological progress and cultural continuity, Leatherbarrow claims, exists only in theory, not in the real world of architecture. He argues that the act of building is not a matter of restoring regional identity by re-creating familiar signs, but of incorporating construction into the process of topography's perpetual becoming.
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October 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Ce sont sans doute ses contradictions qui rendent fascinante Los Angeles, l’anti-ville qui est pourtant la deuxième ville des États-Unis. Il n’est que de voir la pléiade d’auteurs qui en ont fait la toile de fond de leur roman ou de leur film. Ses défauts majeurs - le paroxysme de l’étalement urbain, une ville-banlieue impraticable sans voiture - portent paradoxalement(...)
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Ce sont sans doute ses contradictions qui rendent fascinante Los Angeles, l’anti-ville qui est pourtant la deuxième ville des États-Unis. Il n’est que de voir la pléiade d’auteurs qui en ont fait la toile de fond de leur roman ou de leur film. Ses défauts majeurs - le paroxysme de l’étalement urbain, une ville-banlieue impraticable sans voiture - portent paradoxalement(...)
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Portrait de ville : Los Angeles
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Ce sont sans doute ses contradictions qui rendent fascinante Los Angeles, l’anti-ville qui est pourtant la deuxième ville des États-Unis. Il n’est que de voir la pléiade d’auteurs qui en ont fait la toile de fond de leur roman ou de leur film. Ses défauts majeurs - le paroxysme de l’étalement urbain, une ville-banlieue impraticable sans voiture - portent paradoxalement une part statistique de rêve : celui de la maison individuelle ; celui aussi des strass et paillettes de l’univers hollywoodien... Quand on évoque le paysage de Los Angeles, une plaine côtière entre mer et montagnes (jusqu’à plus de 3000 m), gigantesque oasis suburbaine dans le désert californien, surgissent de multiples clichés : le soleil sur l’océan Pacifique et les grandes plages de sable fin où s’ébrouent les pulpeuses coast-guards en maillot rouge des séries américaines ; les autoroutes urbaines avec leurs échangeurs qui sillonnent les quelque 100 km d’étendue de l’agglomération ; les nappes de lotissements pavillonnaires noyés dans une végétation plus ou moins dense s’étendant à l’infini au fil de tracés viaires en damiers ; l’émergence des tours de Downtown qui, à l’échelle métropolitaine, a plutôt valeur de monument que de centre-ville, ou celle de plusieurs vagues de collines entre montagne et mer. Autre paradoxe, si l’on s’intéresse plus spécialement à l’architecture : Los Angeles est à la fois un océan de banalité - celle de l’habitation ordinaire, des centres commerciaux standards et des stations-service - et un musée d’architecture de plein air où plusieurs générations de grands architectes modernes et contemporains ont laissé leur signature, notamment pour des maisons particulières, comme Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Schindler et Richard Neutra, puis Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Craig Ellwood et Cesar Pelli, ou plus récemment Charles Moore, Frank Gehry, ou Morphosis... Enfin, l’apparente tranquillité des lieux est violemment contredite à divers égards. Chacun sait que la faille de San Andrea est là et qu’un jour ou l’autre surviendra un cataclysme majeur. De plus, contrairement aux idées reçues qui veulent que les conflits sociaux s’expriment sur les lieux de travail ou dans les ghettos urbains denses, Los Angeles a connu il n’y a pas si longtemps des émeutes dans des quartiers noirs pavillonnaires qui ont révélé qu’elle était sous haute tension sociale autant que géologique. Fondée à l’heure de la colonisation espagnole (1781), elle n’est alors qu’un village agricole à main d’œuvre indienne. Après l’annexion de la Californie par les États-Unis (1848), la ville se développe sous la houlette des Anglo-américains protestants, même si d’autres communautés s’y installent : Mexicains, Chinois, Noirs, puis Japonais. La ségrégation ethnico-sociale, aussi spontanée qu’affirmée, est aussi spatiale. Bien que la communauté hispanique soit depuis longtemps la plus importante (plus de 45%, principalement dans East Los Angeles), aucun maire chicano n’avait été élu depuis 1872, lorsque La n’avait encore que 6000 habitants, contre 3,8 millions aujourd’hui et plus de 15 millions pour l’aire métropolitaine. La toute récente élection (mai 2005) du nouveau maire de la ville, Antonio Villaraigosa, est donc un événement. Ancien député du parlement californien, il est le fils d’immigrés mexicains pauvres, et il a bénéficié cette fois de l’appui de la communauté noire. Parmi les dossiers les plus chauds qu’il aura à traiter figurent les tensions raciales, la pénurie de logements, la pollution et la congestion du trafic.
Portrait de ville : Los Angeles
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Ce sont sans doute ses contradictions qui rendent fascinante Los Angeles, l’anti-ville qui est pourtant la deuxième ville des États-Unis. Il n’est que de voir la pléiade d’auteurs qui en ont fait la toile de fond de leur roman ou de leur film. Ses défauts majeurs - le paroxysme de l’étalement urbain, une ville-banlieue impraticable sans voiture - portent paradoxalement une part statistique de rêve : celui de la maison individuelle ; celui aussi des strass et paillettes de l’univers hollywoodien... Quand on évoque le paysage de Los Angeles, une plaine côtière entre mer et montagnes (jusqu’à plus de 3000 m), gigantesque oasis suburbaine dans le désert californien, surgissent de multiples clichés : le soleil sur l’océan Pacifique et les grandes plages de sable fin où s’ébrouent les pulpeuses coast-guards en maillot rouge des séries américaines ; les autoroutes urbaines avec leurs échangeurs qui sillonnent les quelque 100 km d’étendue de l’agglomération ; les nappes de lotissements pavillonnaires noyés dans une végétation plus ou moins dense s’étendant à l’infini au fil de tracés viaires en damiers ; l’émergence des tours de Downtown qui, à l’échelle métropolitaine, a plutôt valeur de monument que de centre-ville, ou celle de plusieurs vagues de collines entre montagne et mer. Autre paradoxe, si l’on s’intéresse plus spécialement à l’architecture : Los Angeles est à la fois un océan de banalité - celle de l’habitation ordinaire, des centres commerciaux standards et des stations-service - et un musée d’architecture de plein air où plusieurs générations de grands architectes modernes et contemporains ont laissé leur signature, notamment pour des maisons particulières, comme Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf Schindler et Richard Neutra, puis Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Craig Ellwood et Cesar Pelli, ou plus récemment Charles Moore, Frank Gehry, ou Morphosis... Enfin, l’apparente tranquillité des lieux est violemment contredite à divers égards. Chacun sait que la faille de San Andrea est là et qu’un jour ou l’autre surviendra un cataclysme majeur. De plus, contrairement aux idées reçues qui veulent que les conflits sociaux s’expriment sur les lieux de travail ou dans les ghettos urbains denses, Los Angeles a connu il n’y a pas si longtemps des émeutes dans des quartiers noirs pavillonnaires qui ont révélé qu’elle était sous haute tension sociale autant que géologique. Fondée à l’heure de la colonisation espagnole (1781), elle n’est alors qu’un village agricole à main d’œuvre indienne. Après l’annexion de la Californie par les États-Unis (1848), la ville se développe sous la houlette des Anglo-américains protestants, même si d’autres communautés s’y installent : Mexicains, Chinois, Noirs, puis Japonais. La ségrégation ethnico-sociale, aussi spontanée qu’affirmée, est aussi spatiale. Bien que la communauté hispanique soit depuis longtemps la plus importante (plus de 45%, principalement dans East Los Angeles), aucun maire chicano n’avait été élu depuis 1872, lorsque La n’avait encore que 6000 habitants, contre 3,8 millions aujourd’hui et plus de 15 millions pour l’aire métropolitaine. La toute récente élection (mai 2005) du nouveau maire de la ville, Antonio Villaraigosa, est donc un événement. Ancien député du parlement californien, il est le fils d’immigrés mexicains pauvres, et il a bénéficié cette fois de l’appui de la communauté noire. Parmi les dossiers les plus chauds qu’il aura à traiter figurent les tensions raciales, la pénurie de logements, la pollution et la congestion du trafic.
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September 2005, Paris
September 2005, Paris
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Urban Theory
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