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The Palace complex : a Stalinist skyscraper, capitalist Warsaw, and a city transfixed / Michal Murawski.
Van Pelt Library DK4645.P34 M873 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murawski, Michał.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie.
- Architecture and society--Poland--Warsaw.
- Architecture and society.
- Municipal buildings--Poland--Warsaw.
- Municipal buildings.
- Warsaw (Poland)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Warsaw (Poland).
- Poland--Warsaw.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- The planners : conceiving the Palace complex
- Public spirit, or the gift of noncapitalism
- Designing architectural power : scale, style and location
- Site-specific : Varsovian interpretations of the Palace
- Varsovianization : the Palace complex after 1989
- "The center of the very center"
- The extraordinary Palace.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2014, under the title: Palace Complex : the social life of a Stalinist skyscraper in post-socialist Warsaw.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253039967
- 9780253039965
- 9780253039941
- 0253039940
- OCLC:
- 1030487590
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