Mediterranean crossroads
Subtitle: Marseille and modern architecture
By: Sheila Crane
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780816653614; 9780816653621
Subjects: Architecture and society; City planning; Buildings, structures; Modern Architecture; History
Other titles: Marseille and modern architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Marseille's absent presence in modern architecture; title: The view from the bridge : photography, planning, and urban physiognomy; title: The city in the world : Marseille's Mediterraneanisms; title: Urban gynecology and engineered destruction : spatial politics in the city at war; title: Spectacles of ruin : from a new monumentality to urban purification; title: Imperial facades : postwar rebuilding and the battle for the old port; title: Excavating past and present : recovering the ancient port of Massalia; title: Conclusion. Afterimages of Marseille.