The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília /

The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília /

The utopian design and organization of Brasília - the modernist new capital of Brazil - were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, the author analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind...

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Author / Creator: Holston, James.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Subjects:
20th century
1900-1999
New towns > Brazil > Brasília (Distrito Federal)
City planning > Brazil > Brasília (Distrito Federal)
City planning.
Architecture.
History.
Architecture and society.
Urban anthropology.
New towns.
Urban anthropology > Case studies.
Architecture > Human factors.
Architecture and society > Brazil > Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture > Brazil > Brasília (Distrito Federal) > History > 20th century.
Planificación urbana > Brasil.
Antropología urbana > Estudio con casos.
Arquitectura moderna > Siglo XX.
Social conditions.
Stadsplanning.
Architecture > Brésil > Brasília (Brésil)
Anthropologie urbaine > Cas, Études de.
Urbanisme > Brésil > Brasília (Brésil)
Villes nouvelles > Brésil > Brasilia.
Architecture et société > Brésil > Brasilia.
Brazil > Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil) > Social conditions.
Brasilia > Condiciones sociales.
Brasília (Brésil) > Conditions sociales.
Case studies.
Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
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