Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture
Awards:   Winner of Mediterranean Crossroads 2012
Author:   Sheila Crane
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:  

9780816653614


Pages:   376
Publication Date:   12 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Mediterranean Crossroads 2012

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Author:   Sheila Crane
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
ISBN:  

9780816653614


ISBN 10:   0816653615
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   12 April 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 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 Index

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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


<p> In Mediterranean Crossroads , Sheila Crane offers a freshly inventive form of narrative about modern architecture and planning, one that reveals the intertwining of regional and national politics, imperialist/colonialist imaginaries, and popular images of the city. --Nancy Stieber, author of Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920


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Sheila Crane is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia.

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