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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sheila CranePublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780816653621ISBN 10: 0816653623 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 12 April 2011 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Marseille’s Absent Presence in Modern Architecture 1. The View from the Bridge: Photography, Planning, and Urban Physiognomy 2. The City in the World: Marseille’s Mediterraneanisms 3. Urban Gynecology and Engineered Destruction: Spatial Politics in the City at War 4. Spectacles of Ruin: From a New Monumentality to Urban Purification 5. Imperial Façades: Postwar Rebuilding and the Battle for the Old Port 6. Excavating Past and Present: Recovering the Ancient Port of Massalia Conclusion: Afterimages of Marseille Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<p> Sheila Crane's book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the center of a series of extraordinary developments for 20th century art, architecture and urban design. Mediterranean Crossroads unweaves a tangled web of representations, policies, and designs, that were to this day excised from the main narrative of modern architectural history. --Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Art/New York University Sheila Crane s book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the center of a series of extraordinary developments for 20th century art, architecture and urban design. Mediterranean Crossroads unweaves a tangled web of representations, policies, and designs, that were to this day excised from the main narrative of modern architectural history. Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Art/New York University Sheila Crane's book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the center of a series of extraordinary developments for 20th century art, architecture and urban design. Mediterranean Crossroads unweaves a tangled web of representations, policies, and designs, that were to this day excised from the main narrative of modern architectural history. --Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Art/New York University Author InformationSheila Crane is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |