Tower and Slab

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Author	: Florian Urban
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 213
Release	: 2013-07-03
ISBN-10	: 9781136638503
ISBN-13	: 1136638504
Rating	: 4/5 (03 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Tower and Slab by : Florian Urban

Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Social reform, state control, and the origins of mass housing -- ch. 2. Mass housing in Chicago -- ch. 3. The concrete cordon around Paris -- ch. 4. Slabs versus tenements in East and West Berlin -- ch. 5. Bras?lia, the slab block capital -- ch. 6. Mumbai : mass housing for the upper crust -- ch. 7. Prefab Moscow -- ch. 8. High-rise Shanghai -- ch. 9. Global architecture, locally conditioned.

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