Modernist City An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia

Name: Modernist City An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia
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ISBN: 9780226349794

ISBN-10: 0226349799

ISBN-13: 9780226349794

Edition: 1989

Authors: James Holston

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The utopian design and organization of Brasília--the modernist new capital of Brazil--were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/8/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments



The Myth of the Concrete



Premises and Paradoxes Anthropology and Modernism


The Idea of Brasï¿½lia The Instruments of Change


The Negation of the Negation



Blueprint Utopia Brasï¿½lia's Pedigree


The Modernist Project



The Plan's Hidden Agenda Plan Mythology The Hidden Agenda Brasï¿½lia's Development Inversions


The Exemplary Center Niemeyer's Social Architecture Modernism and Modernization


The Counter-Brincadeira



The City Defamiliarized



The Death of the Street The Architectural Context of Street Life


The Solid-Void/Figure-Ground Convention


The Street in Ouro Preto: Private Property and Public Display


The Modernist Inversion Transforming Civic Discourse: The New Public of Brasï¿½lia



Typologies of Order, Work, and Residence Zoning the City: A Typology of Form and Function The Monumental Work Sectors The Superquadra Solution


The Apartment Plan


The Apartment Faï¿½ade



The Recovery of History



Rights to the City Populating an Idea: Differential Incorporation


The Recruitment of Pioneers Discourses of Participation: Reinventing the Nation


The Labor Market Recruitment Rights, Privledges, and Powers From Interests to Actions



Cities of Rebellion The Illegal Periphery


The Legal Periphery Political-Administrative Organization: The Climate of Tranquility Space and Society: An Absolute Predominance of Public Servants



The Brazilianization of Brasï¿½lia The Periphery in Time and Space The Squatter Settlement of Vila Chaparral Center Street, Sobradinho The City Familiarized


Concluding Remarks


Notes


Bibliography


Index