Architectural and cultural guide Pyongyang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meuser, Philipp, 1969-

Oegungmun Ch'ulp'ansa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Interior architecture.

Communism and architecture.

Architecture.

Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang.

Architecture--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang--Guidebooks.

Communism and architecture--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang--Guidebooks.

Interior architecture--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang--Guidebooks.

City planning--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang--Guidebooks.

Buildings--Korea (North)--P'yŏngyang--Guidebooks.

Buildings.

P'yŏngyang (Korea)--Guidebooks.

P'yŏngyang (Korea).

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Penn Provenance:

Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-2018 (former owner) (Libra copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Pyongyang

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Dom Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

"Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from rubble after the Korean War of the 1950s. This guide offers unprecedented insights into the capital of what is probably the most isolated country in the world, ruled in the third generation by a 'first family' stubbornly upholding its own brand of stone-age communism."--Jacket.

Contents:

v. 1. Photographs and descriptions / compiled by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea

v. 2. Backgrounds and comments / edited by Philipp Meuser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Libra copy presented to the Penn Libraries by the Family of Dr. Yoonmee Chang.

ISBN:

9783869221878

3869221879

OCLC:

759171767