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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, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.
The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pione
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.
A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international
The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transforma