Article: Modernism and the city.(From Cause to Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City)(Book review)

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From Cause to Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City by Nathan Glazer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2007 300 pp, index. Price US$24.95.

Nathan Glazer traces the trajectory of a modernism that began with a commitment to the poor against the architectural forms representative of an elitist taste, to a radical modernism seen as elitist but evasive to the ordinary person, to the postmodern celebration of chaos, disorder, and the combination of past and present forms. Glazer thoroughly explores the contributions as well as the polemical aspects of modernism in US architecture and urban planning. Modernist ...

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