TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adam,Robert
TI  - The globalisation of modern architecture: the impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture and urban design since 1900 
SN  - 1443839051
AV  - NA2543.G46 A336 2012
U1  - 720.103 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Architecture and globalization
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - History
N1  - 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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