ISBN:
9780253039965
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9780253039941
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 338 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Series Statement:
New anthropologies of Europe
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Murawski, Michał The palace complex
DDC:
943.8/41
Keywords:
Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie
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Architecture and society
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Municipal buildings
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Warsaw (Poland) Buildings, structures, etc
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Warschau
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Palast der Kultur und Wissenschaften
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Geschichte
Abstract:
The planners : conceiving the Palace complex -- Public spirit, or the gift of noncapitalism -- Designing architectural power : scale, style and location -- Site-specific : Varsovian interpretations of the Palace -- Varsovianization : the Palace complex after 1989 -- "The center of the very center" -- The extraordinary Palace.
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2014, under the title: Palace Complex : the social life of a Stalinist skyscraper in post-socialist Warsaw
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index
