The Zone: An Alternative History Of Paris Justinien Tribillon Verso Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

In The Zone Justinien Tribillon Takes Reader On A Tour Of An Eponymous Parisian Hinterland Site Dreams And Nightmares From Van Gogh\ S Paintings To Cinematic Violence La Haine So Often Misun- Derstood Is Key Understanding Today\ Paris Even France Itself Originally Defensive Walls Alongside Which Mushroomed Makeshift Housing Allotments Dancehalls Nineteenth Century Has Performed Many Functions Been Place Contention For Two Centuries Dismantled 1920S Fortifications Were First Replaced With Gardens Stadia Homes After War Came Boulevard Périphérique Ring Road Promising Seamless Travel Futuristic Car-Centric New Modernity Reinvented Suburbs: Towns High-Rise Architecture Social Built At Record Speed Yesterday\ Made Way Tomorrow\ Banlieue But Metropolitan Dream Was Never Realised Became Symbol Division: Between Inner Outer Cities Bourgeois Centre Working-Class Immigrant Outskirts \ Us\ Them\ Both Physical Space Powerful Myth Crystallise Spatial Ethno-Racial Differences Brilliant Anatomy True Heart Essential Book Urbanists Historians Σελίδες: 208 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1001 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm