Casablanca Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization

by Tom Avermaete and Maristella Casciato

This richly illustrated volume invites us to think afresh about urban life and the modern city by offering images and analyses of two very different but complementary contemporary cities: the planned Indian city of Chandigarh and the ancient metropolis of Casablanca--the ancient North African harbor town developed into a modern metropolis by Michel Ecochard and a team of young French and Moroccan architects after World War II. Countering the dominant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3906027368
• ISBN13: 9783906027364
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.4"