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An Urban Odyssey: City Beautiful to City Instagrammable
Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Jordi Oliveras describes the centuries‐long history of ‘beautifying the city’. He discusses how utopian ideas of urban form and placement or architectural design can quickly become dystopian by blindly following rules of classical symmetry or ideas of modernist fashion.
An Urban Odyssey: City Beautiful to City Instagrammable
Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Jordi Oliveras describes the centuries‐long history of ‘beautifying the city’. He discusses how utopian ideas of urban form and placement or architectural design can quickly become dystopian by blindly following rules of classical symmetry or ideas of modernist fashion.
An Urban Odyssey: City Beautiful to City Instagrammable
Oliveras, Jordi (author)
Architectural Design ; 93 ; 46-53
2023-01-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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