Tower and Slab

Tower and Slab
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781136638503
ISBN-13 : 1136638504
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Book Synopsis Tower and Slab by : Florian Urban

Download or read book Tower and Slab written by Florian Urban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Social reform, state control, and the origins of mass housing -- ch. 2. Mass housing in Chicago -- ch. 3. The concrete cordon around Paris -- ch. 4. Slabs versus tenements in East and West Berlin -- ch. 5. Bras?lia, the slab block capital -- ch. 6. Mumbai : mass housing for the upper crust -- ch. 7. Prefab Moscow -- ch. 8. High-rise Shanghai -- ch. 9. Global architecture, locally conditioned.


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