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The Global Architect
Firms, Fame and Urban Form
Series: Cultural Spaces
The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of...
Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge
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New Europe
Imagined Spaces
New Europe: Imagined Spaces traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades. Instead of the familiar 'schoolbook' map of a Europe of nation-states, the book unpacks the differing imaginations of European identity in recent years. Taking as its central...
Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge
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Urban Change and the European Left
Tales from the New Barcelona
Urban Change and the European Left looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages.The book explores local narratives of urban change through ethnography, biography, travelogue, and social history. Drawing on novels, architectural commentaries, urban plans,...
Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge