The globalisation of modern architecture : the impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 1900 / by Robert Adam.

Includes bibliographical references.

A short history of globalisation and architecture from 500 BCE to 1939 CE -- Empires and birth of faith-based styles -- European discovery and the Enlightenment -- Colonisation and the spread of European culture -- The first great globalisation -- Nationalism, internationalism and the birth of modernism -- The New World order 1945 to 1992: global commerce, politics and the triumph of modernism -- Establishing global institutions -- The Cold War and victory of modernism -- The golden age of capitalism and heroic modernism -- The breakdown of the post-war consensus and a crisis of confidence in architecture -- Western recovery and the fragmentation of architecture -- Setting the stage for the global economy -- The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the new global era -- The social and cultural impacts of globalisation -- The supremacy of the north-Atlantic economics -- Architectural practice and the response to global opportunities -- Architects and the transnational capitalist class -- Cities and the global elite -- The new structure of global trade -- A transformed political landscape and the global city -- The universal trading city -- Reflexive modernism -- The symbolism of the global city -- The global suburb -- Deterritorialisation and the non-place -- Consumerism, the globalisation of markets and branding -- Tourism redefined and the branding of cities -- The birth of the iconic building and the Bilbao effect -- Iconic architecture: practice and theory -- Star architects -- Global architects -- The breakdown of the nation state and revived identities -- Cultural rights and the international response -- Identity politics and the complexity of the global condition -- Personal and social identity -- 'Glocalisation' and the new trading conditions -- The local and the global in environmentalism -- Critical regionalism: the modernist response to localism -- Sustainability and locality -- Identity and reflexive modernism -- Contextual urbanism -- Traditional architecture -- The present and the future -- The 2008 bank crash and end of north Atlantic supremacy -- Power moves east -- Changing global priorities -- Urban crisis in the emerging economies -- Iconic architecture reassessed -- Indigenisation and hybridised returns -- The next modernism?

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