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Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937
Shaping the Great City Modern Architecture in Central Europe 18901937 Author:Eve Blau, Monika Platzer This is a study on the explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first years of the new republics of Central Europe. Despite the cultural battleground of competing linguistic, ethnic, religious and natural traditions and aspirations, the region was nevertheless host to a persistent cosmopolitan id... more »eal. This publication looks at the city as both the principal site of innovation and experimentation in the period and the generator of a vibrant urban culture.« less