Medrano, Leandro Silva, author.

The Contemporary City and the Urban Unreal : São Paulo in the 21st Century.

[Place of publication not identified] : Fall Semester, 2014.

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"At the beginning of the 20th century, Georg Simmel published one of his most important and well-known texts, "The metropolis and mental life". He focused on the changes he observed in the relationship between spatial configuration and society (and other forms of sociability) within the urban landscape of the emerging big cities (or metropolises), namely, Berlin at the turn of the 19th century. When he published his essay in 1903, the metropolis was a recent occurrence signaling the beginning of a new urban phenomenon. It was brought about by the advances of industrialization and capitalism which, subsequently, would permanently change the physical configuration of cities and alter their economic, social and cultural significance. Simmel lived through Berlin's great transformations from the second half of the 19th century onward and he described the birth of the modern city with singular clarity, seeking to demonstrate how the make-up of the big city would radically transform the relationship between individuals and society..."-- provided by distributor.

City planning.
Housing.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)

Tracts (Ephemera)
Pamphlets

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