{"product_id":"mediterranean-crossroads-9780816653621","title":"Mediterranean Crossroads","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining Marseille as a significant center for the evolution of architectural and urban modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Crossroads\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eHousing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Crossroads \u003c\/i\u003eunweaves 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Marseille’s Absent Presence in Modern Architecture\u003cbr\u003e 1. The View from the Bridge: Photography, Planning, and Urban Physiognomy\u003cbr\u003e 2. The City in the World: Marseille’s Mediterraneanisms\u003cbr\u003e 3. Urban Gynecology and Engineered Destruction: Spatial Politics in the City at War\u003cbr\u003e 4. Spectacles of Ruin: From a New Monumentality to Urban Purification\u003cbr\u003e 5. Imperial Façades: Postwar Rebuilding and the Battle for the Old Port\u003cbr\u003e 6. Excavating Past and Present: Recovering the Ancient Port of Massalia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Afterimages of Marseille\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405960028503,"sku":"9780816653621","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816653621.jpg?v=1730494051","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediterranean-crossroads-9780816653621","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}