Descript |
427 pages illustrations, map 19 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-396) and index |
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"'A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it."--Provided by publisher |
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Arkitektur
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Arkitektur och samhälle
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Architecture -- Europe
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Architecture and society -- Europe
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Architecture and society -- European Union countries
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Cities and towns -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Cities and towns -- Social aspects -- European Union countries
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Städer -- sociala aspekter
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Architecture and society
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Architecture
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European Union countries -- Social conditions
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Europe -- Social conditions
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Europa
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Classmark |
720.94
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Ic-a
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ISBN/ISSN |
9780141988320 hbk. |
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9780141985961 (ePub ebook) |
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