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      Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning

      America Builds

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      America Builds book

      Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning
      Edited ByLeland M. Roth
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1983
      eBook Published 17 June 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429032608
      Pages 690
      eBook ISBN 9780429032608
      Subjects Built Environment
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      Roth, L.M. (Ed.). (1983). America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429032608

      ABSTRACT

      Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with one another. Hence this volume, like my Concise Hist

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|13 pages

      The Land and First Homes

      chapter II|11 pages

      Transplantations in the New World

      chapter III|21 pages

      Building a New Nation

      chapter IV|123 pages

      The Lure of the Past, the Promise of the Future

      chapter V|99 pages

      Age of Enterprise

      chapter VI|179 pages

      The Search for Order

      chapter VII|49 pages

      Dichotomy: Tradition and Avant-Garde

      chapter VIII|131 pages

      Pure Function, Pure Form

      chapter |32 pages

      Epilogue

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