Tower and Slab Urban Florian
Tower and Slab Urban Florian Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. While in the United States…
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Tower and Slab Urban Florian
Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy.
Florian Urban studies the history of mass housing in seven narratives: Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow, and Shanghai. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears universal, it is in fact diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts. Investigating the complex interactions between city planning and social history, Tower and Slab shows how the modernist