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The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities. Modern architecture, with its insistence on the mute object and its rejection of the conventions of street and square, has abdicated civic responsibility and eschewed the urban forms that express and promote it. In this eloquent and extensively illustrated studyâŚ
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This book focuses on the role of modern architecture in Paris, and by âmodern,â Dennis has in mind the architecture created during the reinvention of Paris in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Dennis provides the best introduction to a crucial factor in Parisâs essence: the particular kind of residential architecture that became characteristic of the cityscape in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the hĂ´tel or townhouse. Great architecture helps make a city great, and in Paris in particular, much of the greatest modern architecture was originally residential â grand townhouses built for the wealthiest Parisians.
Today, most of these townhousesâŚ
From Joan's list on what makes a city great, especially Paris.
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