The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226349794)

The utopian design and organization of Bras?ia--the modernist new capital of Brazil--were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Bras?ia from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.


Author: James Holston
ISBN-10: 0226349799
ISBN-13: 9780226349794
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/1989
Pages: 383
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.94w x 0.88d