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Housing design and society in Amsterdam : reconfiguring urban order and identity, 1900-1920 / Nancy Stieber.
Fine Arts Library NA7555.N4 S75 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stieber, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Dwellings--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- International style (Architecture)--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- International style (Architecture).
- Architecture and state--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Architecture and state.
- Working class--Dwellings.
- History.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- During the early 1900s, Amsterdam developed an international reputation as an urban mecca when invigorating reforms gave rise to new residential neighborhoods encircling the city's dispirited nineteenth-century districts. This new housing, built primarily with government subsidy, not only was affordable but also met rigorous standards of urban planning and architectural design. Nancy Stieber explores the social and political developments that fostered this innovation in public housing.
- Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, Stieber examines how government supported large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role as architects in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society.
- Stieber emphasizes the tensions involved in making architectural design a social practice while she demonstrates the success of this collective enterprise in bringing about effective social policy and aesthetic progress.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Politics of Daily Life 15
- Chapter 2 Social Hygiene and Aesthetics 47
- Chapter 3 Setting Housing Standards 73
- Chapter 4 Civilizing the Working Class 97
- Chapter 5 The Standard Plan 125
- Chapter 6 Controlling Urban Aesthetics 157
- Chapter 7 Reforming Workers' Taste 183
- Chapter 8 Normalization of the Facade 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226774171
- OCLC:
- 38016673
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