Representing the state
Subtitle: capital city planning in the early twentieth century
By: Wolfgang Sonne ; [translated from the German by Elizabeth Schwaiger].
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: City planning -- History -- 20th century; Capitals (Cities) -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- Political aspects
Description: 367 p., [20] p. of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: The political iconography of the city; title: Washington 1902 : national self-presentation of a consolidated democracy; title: Greater Berlin 1910 : raising a European capital to imperial world status; title: Canberra 1912 : searching for democratic monumentality; title: New Delhi 1913 : manifestation of the empire's supremacy; title: World centre of communication 1913 : the futile invention of an international city of peace; title: City images and their political meaning.