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Emerging from a 1987 conference in Berlin, entitled "The City of the Twenty-first Century," at which...
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Emerging from a 1987 conference in Berlin, entitled "The City of the Twenty-first Century," at which architects and planners debated the problems and opportunities confronting the great 20th-century metropolises of Berlin and New York, this profusely illustrated (b&w) study is comprised of essays by 34 noted German and American scholars and critics, who address issues of urban planning the growth of transportation networks, the birth of the skyscraper, the garden city movement as well as the history of the modern movement in art and architecture. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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