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The Courthouse and the Depot
Wilber W. Caldwell
其他書名
The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair : a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910
出版Mercer University Press, 2001
主題Architecture / History / GeneralArchitecture / Buildings / Public, Commercial & IndustrialArchitecture / RegionalHistory / United States / State & Local / General
ISBN08655474839780865547483
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EGyf7XQeWEIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Strictly speaking, this is not an architectural history. Rather, it is history narrated by architecture. This is a book about small towns because the history of the South before 1910 is about small towns. It is a book about courthouses because the courthouse, more than any other building of the era, symbolized the collective self-image of the people of these towns. It is a book about depots because the depot is the architecture of the railroad, and in this period, for these people, in these places, the railroad brought with it the all-consuming and often disappointing promise of the future."--Jacket.