The American City - The MIT Press

March 1983
8 x 10, 580 pp., 292 illus.
(PAPER)
Short

ISBN-10:
0-262-53044-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-53044-6

Out Of Print

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The American City
From the Civil War to the New Deal
Giorgio Ciucci, Francesco Dal Co, Mario Manien-Elia and Manfredo Tafuri
Translated by BarbaraLuigia LaPenta

Contents: Toward an "Imperial City": Daniel H. Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement, Mario Manieri-Elia; From Parks to the Region: Progressive Ideology and the Reform of the American City, Francesco Dal Co; The City in Agrarian Ideology and Frank Lloyd Wright: Origins and Development of Broadacres, Giorgio Cuicci; The Disenchanted Mountain: The Skyscraper and the City, Manfredo Tafuri.

"[This] is a large volume made up of extended essays by four Italian urbanists who have been studying the United States in some depth.... Each of the writers deploys an economic interpretation that rests partially on Marx and neo-Marxism, though the results are not uncomfortably doctrinaire. Well-illustrated and thoroughly annotated, this book should attract the inquisitive urbanite, its easy narrative style making the more technical analyses quite palatable."
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