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Olsen's thesis is that these three European capitals were each deliberately conceived as a unified work of art to reinforce the values of the dominant class and to serve their leisure pursuits. This is "a delightful and gripping, richly illustrated social history," noted PW .
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A sweeping comparative analysis of three great European metropolises in the 19th century, equally concerned with ordinary social life and monumental civic life. Olsen, author of two earlier books on the growth of London, mines with a cultivated air an English vein of writing about architecture, rendering his subject matter as a document of history and society and scattering drawing room references to T.S. Eliot and Edith Wharton. He interprets the city not as a department store of bourgeois consumption, the "product" of industrialization, but rather as a vessel of civilization itself, a theater of historicist consciousness. This is a major statement on the 19th-century city, destined to be a landmark in the fields of urban and planning history. Peter S. Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll. Lib., Selden, N.Y.
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Are you an architect or just a history buff, or are a bit homesick for some non-crackerjackbox architectural input? Then this is the book for you. Mine is in "like-new" condition, and I've been going through it over and over again since getting it in the mail. Filled with excellent illustration and lengthy text, just the thing to set you thinking, then back to the computer with the CAD software and some new building designs. A good book to have for any artist, painter, architect or engineer or just plain bookworm. This book is well printed and well bound.
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Second Empire, West End, Palais Royal, Middle Ages, Regent's Park, Victorian London, British Museum, Third Republic, Guildhall Library, Stadt Wien, Evelyn Benesch, Hermann Muthesius, New York, City of London, Covent Garden, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Photo Godfrey, South Kensington, Bond Street, Georgian London, Photo Lauros-Giraudon, Queen Anne, Building News, Charing Cross, Franz Joseph New!
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- Paris: The Biography of a City by Colin Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750-1950; Volume 2: People and Their Environment by F. M. L. Thompson on page 196, and Back Matter
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