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30 heritage buildings of Yangon : inside the city that captured time / [text by Sarah Rooney].
LIBRA NA1512.2.R36 R666 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooney, Sarah, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Burma--Rangoon--History.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Burma--Rangoon.
- Buildings--Burma--Rangoon.
- Buildings.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- History.
- Burma--Rangoon.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, photographs ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Reprinted with corrections in 2013 in Myanmar.
- Other Title:
- Thirty heritage buildings of Yangon
- Place of Publication:
- Myanmar : Association of Myanmar Architects, [2013]
- Summary:
- "This book focuses on a selection of 30 key buildings and examines their past, present, and future. Piecing together the often forgotten social history of each building has involved delving into out-of-print books, company records, old city directories, newspaper archives, and people's memories. --back cover.
- Contents:
- A. Around the Secretariat
- B. Around Sule Pagoda
- C. Merchant road, the banking quarters
- D. Pansodan Street, lower block
- E. Along Strand Road
- F. Elsewhere in Yangon.
- Notes:
- "First published in 2012 by Association of Myanmar Architects in association with Serindia Publications, Inc."
- "[Published in association with] Association of Myanmar Architects."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781932476620
- 1932476628
- 9781932476637
- 1932476636
- OCLC:
- 971627918
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