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049			_aCARIBET
050			_aNA687 _bD93 2017
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100	1		_9294572 _aDyckhoff, Tom
245			_aThe age of spectacle: _badventures in architecture and the 21-st century city
264			_aLondon: _bRandom House Books, _c2017
300			_a378pages. : _billus; _c25cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aThe 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.
520			_aOver 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
650		0	_9196960 _aArchitecture, Modern _y21st century
650		0	_973674 _aCities and towns _vHistory
942			_2lcc _c6 _e[1st] _hNA687 _kGeneral _mD93 2017