TY  - GEN
AU  - Holston, James
TI  - Modernist city: an anthropological critique of Brasilia 
SN  - 9780226349794
U1  - 307.768098174 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Architecture
KW  - City planning
KW  - Architecture--Human factors
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social aspects--Brazil
N1  - Includes notes, illustrations, index and references
N2  - 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.

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