Tower and slab: histories of global mass housing
Urban, Florian
Tower and slab: histories of global mass housing - 1st Ed - New York Routledge 2012 - xii, 208 Pages | Binding - Paperback |
ower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears universal, it is in fact diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts.
Florian Urban studies the history of mass housing in seven narratives: Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow, and Shanghai. Investigating the complex interactions between city planning and
978-0-415-67629-8
BUILDING TYPES (AR-BUIL)
SOCIALREFORM; MASSHOUSINGINCHICAGO; THECONCRETECORDONAROUNDPARIS
725.97 / URB
Tower and slab: histories of global mass housing - 1st Ed - New York Routledge 2012 - xii, 208 Pages | Binding - Paperback |
ower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears universal, it is in fact diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts.
Florian Urban studies the history of mass housing in seven narratives: Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow, and Shanghai. Investigating the complex interactions between city planning and
978-0-415-67629-8
BUILDING TYPES (AR-BUIL)
SOCIALREFORM; MASSHOUSINGINCHICAGO; THECONCRETECORDONAROUNDPARIS
725.97 / URB