LIBERAL MONUMENT, THE. URBAN DESIGN AND THE LATE MODERN PROJECT

LIBERAL MONUMENT, THE. URBAN DESIGN AND THE LATE MODERN PROJECT.

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The Liberal Monument -- Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical challenge'sprawl. In his provocative manifesto The Liberal Monument, D'Hooghe argues that architecture and urbanism must boldly intervene in city planning and growth management. D'Hooghe travels the world in search of experiments in urbanism and finds'in the ruins of these failed utopias'a way forward. He discovers in the work of "second-generation" modernists Sigfried Giedion and Louis I. Kahn an effort to connect architecture, planning, and liberal politics. This becomes the seed for what he calls "the liberal monument." The Liberal Monument is a provocative, accessible work of theory that challenges all of the accepted truths of urban design. Its goal is to restore the confidence architecture will need, whether it is building cities from the ground up in China and Dubai or managing the growth of the sprawling suburbs of Phoenix and Raleigh/Durham.

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