The modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília / James Holston.

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Holston, James

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.Description: xiv, 369 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0226349799 (pbk.)
9780226349794 (pbk.)

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Modernist city : an anthropological critique of Brasília [Other title]

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Table of contents

Contents:

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Part 1: The Myth of the Concrete 1. Premises and Paradoxes Anthropology and Modernism The Idea of Brasi;lia The Instruments of Change The Negation of the Negation 2. Blueprint Utopia Brasi;lia's Pedigree The Modernist Project 3. The Plan's Hidden Agenda Plan Mythology The Hidden Agenda Brasi;lia's Development Inversions The Exemplary Center Niemeyer's Social Architecture Modernism and Modernization The Counter- Brincadeira Part 2: The City Defamiliarized 4. The Death of the Street The Architectural Context of Street Life The Solid-Void/Figure-Ground Convention The Street in Ouro Preto: Private Property and Public Display The Modernist Inversion Transforming Civic Discourse: The New Public of Brasi;lia 5. Typologies of Order, Work, and Residence Zoning the City: A Typology of Form and Function The Monumental Work Sectors The Superquadra Solution The Apartment Plan The Apartment Faȧde Part 3: The Recovery of History 6. Rights to the City Populating an Idea: Differential Incorporation The Recruitment of Pioneers Discourses of Participation: Reinventing the Nation The Labor Market Recruitment Rights, Privledges, and Powers From Interests to Actions 7. Cities of Rebellion The Illegal Periphery The Legal Periphery Political-Administrative Organization: The Climate of Tranquility Space and Society: An Absolute Predominance of Public Servants 8. The Brazilianization of Brasi;lia The Periphery in Time and Space The Squatter Settlement of Vila Chaparral Center Street, Sobradinho The City Familiarized Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography Index.

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[349]-357) and index.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Part 1: The Myth of the Concrete
1. Premises and Paradoxes
Anthropology and Modernism
The Idea of Brasi;lia
The Instruments of Change
The Negation of the Negation
2. Blueprint Utopia
Brasi;lia's Pedigree
The Modernist Project
3. The Plan's Hidden Agenda
Plan Mythology
The Hidden Agenda
Brasi;lia's Development Inversions
The Exemplary Center
Niemeyer's Social Architecture
Modernism and Modernization
The Counter- Brincadeira
Part 2: The City Defamiliarized
4. The Death of the Street
The Architectural Context of Street Life
The Solid-Void/Figure-Ground Convention
The Street in Ouro Preto: Private Property and Public Display
The Modernist Inversion
Transforming Civic Discourse: The New Public of Brasi;lia
5. Typologies of Order, Work, and Residence
Zoning the City: A Typology of Form and Function
The Monumental Work Sectors
The Superquadra Solution
The Apartment Plan
The Apartment Faȧde
Part 3: The Recovery of History
6. Rights to the City
Populating an Idea: Differential Incorporation
The Recruitment of Pioneers
Discourses of Participation: Reinventing the Nation
The Labor Market
Recruitment
Rights, Privledges, and Powers
From Interests to Actions
7. Cities of Rebellion
The Illegal Periphery
The Legal Periphery
Political-Administrative Organization: The Climate of Tranquility
Space and Society: An Absolute Predominance of Public Servants
8. The Brazilianization of Brasi;lia
The Periphery in Time and Space
The Squatter Settlement of Vila Chaparral
Center Street, Sobradinho
The City Familiarized
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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