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From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City Book

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From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City, Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeat, From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City
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  • From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City
  • Written by author Nathan Glazer
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 1/10/2009
  • Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeat
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Acknowledgments vii

INTRODUCTION 1

PART ONE: The Public Face of Architecture 21

CHAPTER ONE: Building for the Public: What Has Gone Wrong? 23
CHAPTER TWO: The Prince, the People, and the Architects 48
CHAPTER THREE: "Subverting the Context": Olmsted's Parks and Serra's Sculpture 67
CHAPTER FOUR: Monuments in an Age without Heroes 93
CHAPTER FIVE: Modernism and Classicism on the National Mall 117
CHAPTER SIX: Daniel P. Moynihan and Federal Architecture 146

PART TWO: The New York Case 163

CHAPTER SEVEN: What Happened in East Harlem 165
CHAPTER EIGHT: Amenity in New York City 192
CHAPTER NINE: Planning for New York City: Is It Possible? 228

PART THREE: The Professions: From Social Vision to Postmodernism 253

CHAPTER TEN: What Has Happened to the City Planner? 255
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Social Agenda of Architecture 271

Index 293


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