The Modernist City : An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226349799
ISBN-13
9780226349794
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 8th, 1989
Print length
383 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 23.20 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesUrban communitiesAnthropology
Ksh 7,950.00
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The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.
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