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Times of creative destruction : shaping buildings and cities in the late C20th

Title
Times of creative destruction : shaping buildings and cities in the late C20th / Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre.
Publication
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
  • ©2017

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  • Tzonis, Alexander.
  • Lefaivre, Liane.
Description
xii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
Summary
Times of Creative Destruction' is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged. Never before was there such a flurry of daring mega-constructions, such daring spatial acrobatics, 'star' buildings by star architects attained by star developers, mega-constructions, technological feats, and flourishing spatial acrobatics. But, for all its exhilarating creativity, this was also an era of unanticipated, intractable, irreversible destruction reducing the uniqueness and diversity of cultural, social and ecological peaks and valleys of our world, to a 'desert flatland', environmental inequality and unhappiness. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a selection of shorter key texts by Tzonis and Lefaivre, the product of a rare research and writing partnership. The texts, published between the early 1960s and the present, are significant as documents that inform about the period. 0They are also important and timely because of their critical and influential role in the debates of this era, both creative and destructive.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century
  • Architecture and society > History > 20th century
  • City planning > History > 20th century
  • Architecture and society
  • Architecture, Modern
  • City planning > Social aspects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9781472476449
  • 1472476441
  • 9781315550916 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2016019221
  • 40026833290
OCLC
  • ocn952195697
  • 952195697
  • SCSB-5880808
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries