Summary: Villages may spring up but great cities are laid out by surveyors measuring out divisible grids to suit the visions of real estate entrepreneurs, designers of space or social policy. The effort to renew the aged, replace the obsolete or provide for growth, to connect business with residential centers and cities with nature, has provided a range of solutions that range from Colonial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The corridors of power, in business and government, lead to heroic interior spaces, and business has frequently appropriated the architecture of power—that is, of government. Interior spaces symbolize as well as contain function. The ambiguous relationship to nature is seen in the American desire to bring a scaled-down outdoors inside; the incorporation of the past takes different shapes. ...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007