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Autore: | Crowley David <1966-> |
Titolo: | Warsaw [[electronic resource] /] / David Crowley |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Reaktion, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina: | 943.84 |
943.8409045 | |
Soggetto topico: | Architecture - Poland - Warsaw - History - 20th century |
Soggetto geografico: | Warsaw (Poland) Description and travel |
Warsaw (Poland) Social life and customs 20th century | |
Warsaw (Poland) Civilization 20th century | |
Warsaw (Poland) Intellectual life 20th century | |
Classificazione: | 71.14 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Monuments in ruins -- Shops and markets -- At home in the city -- Conclusion : whither public space? |
Sommario/riassunto: | Warsaw has an unenviable reputation in the minds of many: often invoked as the epitome of the brutal environment produced by Soviet aesthetics and planning, its name conjures up a grey, faceless world of tower blocks and Orwellian governmental buildings; its image - perhaps more so than that of any other city in the former Soviet block - inextricably tied to the fate of the Communist system. Warsaw appears to have been locked in the vice of history - crushed by one totalitarian system, remade by another, only now being liberated by market forces. The history of this power play is only one of |
Titolo autorizzato: | Warsaw |
ISBN: | 1-282-27123-7 |
9786612271236 | |
1-86189-465-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814004803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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