Re-Centring the City

by Michal Murawski and Jonathan Bach

Book Overview

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? Re-Centring the City zooms in on these questions, taking as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013294769
• ISBN13: 9781013294761
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"