01953nam a22002897a 4500 260362 260362 pucpr 20200228102834.0 170628b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781847946522 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA687 D93 2017 724.7 294572 Dyckhoff, Tom The age of spectacle: adventures in architecture and the 21-st century city London: Random House Books, 2017 378pages. : illus; 25cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. The view from here -- City of the dead -- People power -- Selling the city -- Brandscapes -- The right to buy -- The curious habits of the starchitect -- If walls could talk -- Meet the most famous architect in the world. Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious – and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and cities’ inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and commercial power-grabs 196960 Architecture, Modern 21st century 73674 Cities and towns History lcc 6 [1st] NA687 General D93 2017 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2017-05-18 Amazon 17.46 0 General NA687 D93 2017 91000000053439 2017-06-28 00:00:00 1 27.46 2017-05-18 6