Description
Book SynopsisExamining Marseille as a significant center for the evolution of architectural and urban modernism.
Trade Review"In Mediterranean Crossroads, Sheila Crane offers a freshly inventive form of narrative about modern architecture and planning, one that reveals the intertwining of regional and national politics, imperialist/colonialist imaginaries, and popular images of the city." —Nancy Stieber, author of Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920
"Sheila Crane’s book masterfully weaves together episodes that have put Marseille in the center of a series of extraordinary developments for 20th century art, architecture and urban design. Mediterranean Crossroads unweaves a tangled web of representations, policies, and designs, that were to this day excised from the main narrative of modern architectural history." —Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Art/New York University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Marseille’s Absent Presence in Modern Architecture
1. The View from the Bridge: Photography, Planning, and Urban Physiognomy
2. The City in the World: Marseille’s Mediterraneanisms
3. Urban Gynecology and Engineered Destruction: Spatial Politics in the City at War
4. Spectacles of Ruin: From a New Monumentality to Urban Purification
5. Imperial Façades: Postwar Rebuilding and the Battle for the Old Port
6. Excavating Past and Present: Recovering the Ancient Port of Massalia
Conclusion: Afterimages of Marseille
Notes
Bibliography
Index
