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Center 5:
Modernist Visions and the Contemporary American City

Center 5 cover

Editors

Anthony Alofsin

Lawrence W. Speck

Managing Editor

Susan R. Hoover

Assistant Managing Editor

Patricia Henderson

Copyright 1989
142 pages, 203 illustrations
Center for the Study of American Architecture
University of Texas at Austin

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Table of Contents

  • Visions and Revisions

    Anthony Alofsin

The Visions

  • Broadacre City: The Reception of a Modernist Vision, 1932-1988

    by Anthony Alofsin

  • Constancies and Changes in Le Corbusier's Urbanism:

    Part I. Attitudes Toward the Man-Made Environment

    by Mary Patricia May Sekler

  • Constancies and Changes in Le Corbusier's Urbanism:

    Part II. Relationships Between Painting and Urbanism

    by Eduard F. Sekler

The Context

  • A Visionary Discipline: Werner Hegemann and the Quest for the Pragmatic Ideal

    by Christiane Crasemann Collins

  • Mobility and Modernism in the Postwar City

    by M. Christine Boyer

  • The Individual and the City

    by Lawrence W. Speck

Case Studies

  • Avion Village

    by David Dillon

  • Aluminum City Terrace

    by Rene David Quinlan

  • Lafayette Park

    by Lise Newman

  • Portland Center

    by Howard Davis

  • Fragmented Machinery: Speculative Post-Industrial Modernism

    by Stephen L. Ross

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