Re-centring the city : global mutations of socialist modernity / edited by Jonathan Bach, Michał Murawski.

London : UCL Press, 2020.

264 pages : illustrations (colour).

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What is the role of monumentality, verticality, and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers, and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? This book zooms in on these questions, taking as its point of departure the experience of Eurasian socialist cities, where twentieth-century high modernity arguably saw its most radical and furthest-reaching realization.

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Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Cities and towns Growth.
City planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Villes Croissance.
urban sprawl.
suburban growth.
Architecture and Planning.

Bach, Jonathan P. G., editor.
Murawski, Michał, editor.
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