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Representing the State
Wolfgang Sonne
其他書名
Capital City Planning in the Early Twentieth Century
出版
Prestel
, 2003
主題
Architecture / General
Architecture / History / General
Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
ISBN
3791328980
9783791328980
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_e0yAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In this work of exceptional scholarship, Wolfgang Sonne examines the relationship between city planning and politics. He analyzes a handful of exemplary cities--Washington, D.C., Berlin, Canberra, and New Delhi--each of which underwent major reconstruction during the years spanning the turn of the twentieth century and the advent of World War I. He also discusses the failed plans for the World Centre of Communication, and attempt at creating an international city of peace in 1913. Because this era was marked by the heyday of Imperialism and its related illusions of grandeur, the book evokes the clashing and melding of political and architectural ideals--a conundrum that continues to plague city planners today.
