1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007271190403321

Autore

Buchanan, James McGill <1919- >

Titolo

Explorations into constitutional economics / James M. Buchanan ; compiled and with a preface by Robert D. Tollison and Viktor J. Vanberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : Texas A&M university press, c1989

ISBN

08-909632-5-8

08-909699-6-5

Descrizione fisica

X, 437 p. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Texas A & M University economics series ; 9

Disciplina

302

Locazione

DTE

DECTS

Collocazione

XV B 376

H01.108

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815832203321

Autore

Barnstone Deborah Ascher

Titolo

The transparent state : architecture and politics in postwar Germany / / Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-99646-6

1-135-99647-4

1-280-16806-4

0-203-79988-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

725/.1/094309045

Soggetti

Architecture and state - Germany

Public buildings - Germany

Transparency in architecture - Germany

Transparency in government - Germany

Germany History 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Transparency ideology; 2 Transparency in German architecture before and after the War; 3 The quest for an open society; 4 Looking in the mirror transparency after 1989; 5 A metaphor for the new Germany; 6 House of openness architecture of encounter; 7 Coming to terms with the past: transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag; 8 Why transparency; Appendix 1 Biography of Hans Schwippert; Appendix 2 Biography of Günter Behnisch; Appendix 3 Biography of Norman Foster; Appendix 4  Happiness and Glass Hans Schwippert; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this book questions the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility and greater democracy.The Transparent State traces the development of transparency in German political and architectural culture, tying this lineage to the relationship between



culture and national identity, a connection that began before unification of the German state in