X-Urbanism Architecture and the American City,9781568981512

X-Urbanism Architecture and the American City

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ISBN13: 9781568981512
ISBN10: 1568981511
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Architectural Press
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Summary

Modern Historiographyis the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; theAnnalesschool in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War 'moods.'Modern Historiographyprovides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Author Biography

Mario Gandelsonas is a professor of architecture at Princeton University who has also taught at Yale, the University of Illinois, Harvard University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. His New York-based design practice with Diana Agr

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
PART 1 11(64)
Chapter 1 THE WESTERN CITY: SEVEN URBAN SCENES
11(34)
Chapter 2 THE IDENTITY OF THE AMERICAN CITY
45(14)
Chapter 3 THE CITY AS THE OBJECT OF ARCHITECTURE
59(16)
PART 2 75(108)
Chapter 4 DRAWING THE AMERICAN CITY
75(6)
New York
81(18)
Los Angeles
99(12)
Boston
111(10)
New Haven
121(10)
Chicago
131(24)
Des Moines
155(18)
Atlantic City
173(10)
Acknowledgments 183(2)
Index 185(6)
Illustration Credits 191

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