Making a New World(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Making a New World(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Leuven University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9058679098 (ISBN 10) and 9789058679093 (ISBN 13).

Study of the foundations and working mechanisms of modern communities In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations between architecture and modernity. Making a New World analyses the various ways in which these relations were determined. Most activists/entities encountered the potentialities of modernity, such as technology or mass media, in an accommodating way. In a broad spectrum of actions and proposals - from art exhibitions to seances, photo reports to roof tiles, landscapes to sanitation - these reformists were hoping to create a universe in which their communal dream could become a reality. The 17 contributions to this richly illustrated volume draw the contours of this new world by analysing its foundations and working mechanisms at its heart. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).