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Modern Mobility Aloft
- Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America
Engelsk Hardback
Modern Mobility Aloft
- Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America
Engelsk Hardback

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In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals. Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers. Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, Modern Mobility Aloft provides a critical understanding of urban landscapes, transportation, and technological change as cities moved into the modern era.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781439919170
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1439919178
Udg. Dato:
23 nov 2020
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
23 nov 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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