| Description |
x, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. The end of geography? -- The regional and the classical imperial -- The first regionalist building-manifesto -- A flat archipelago of garden-villas -- "Consult the genius of the place in all" -- From the decorated farm to the rise of patriotic regionalism -- From regions to nation -- Gothic communalism and nationalist regionalism -- Homelands, world-fairs, living-spaces, and the regional cottage -- International style versus regionalism -- Regionalism rising -- Regionalism redefined -- Regionalism now |
| Summary |
Demystifying the reasons behind how globalization enabled creativity and brought about unprecedented wealth but also produced new wastefulness and ecological destruction, this book looks at how regionalism has also tended to confine, tearing apart societies and promoting destructive consumerist tourism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture and globalization.
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Regionalism in architecture.
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| Author |
Tzonis, Alexander.
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| LC no. |
2011016294 |
| ISBN |
0415575788 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0415575796 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780415575782 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780415575799 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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