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Auteur(s) : Glendinning, Miles (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Mass housing [Texte imprimé] : modern architecture and state power-a global history / Miles Glendinning
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2021]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-675 p.) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most
defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide
'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded,
and built in the modernist style - became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy
which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a
dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Providing
a global approach to the history of Modernist mass-housing production, this authoritative
study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, cultural
aspects of mass housing - particularly the 'mass' politics of power and state-building
throughout the 20th century. Exploring the relationship between built form, ideology,
and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational
ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of
nation-states worldwide. In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass
housing to a 'Hundred Years War' of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the
history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international
outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and the East - where it
asks: Are we facing a new dawn for mass housing, or another 'great housing failure'
in the making?"
Sujet(s) : Grands ensembles -- Société
Immeubles d'habitation -- Société
Quartiers (urbanisme)
Indice(s) Dewey :
720.103 (23e éd.) = Architecture - Influence des conditions et des facteurs sociaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781474229272. - ISBN 1474229271. - ISBN 9781474222501. - ISBN 1474222501. -
ISBN 9781474229289 (erroné). - ISBN 9781474229296 (erroné). - ISBN 9781474229302 (erroné)
(rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46776298h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46776298
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Table des matières : Pre-1914: the long mobilisation ; 1914-1945 : the maturing of mass housing in the
age of emergencies ; Postwar mass housing : an introductory overview ; Housing by
authority : post-war state interventions in the 'Anglosphere' ; Council powers :
postwar public housing in Britain and Ireland ; France : the trente glorieuses of
mass housing ; The Low Countries : pillars of modern mass housing ; Stability and
continuity : West Germany and the alpine countries ; The Nordic countries : social
versus individual? ; Southern Europe : social housing for kinship societies ; The
USSR : developed socialism and extensive urbanism ; A quarrelsome family : the European
socialist states ; Socialist Eastern Asia : mass housing and the Sino-Soviet split
; Latin America : chameleon continent ; Echoes of empire : postwar housing in the
Middle East, South Asia and Africa ; From Third World to First World : mass housing
in capitalist Eastern Asia ; Resilience and renewal : mass housing into the 21st
century ; Race to the top : the new Asian developmentalism ; Conclusion : global
and national, idealism and realpolitik.
