Eggener (American art and architectural history, U. of Missouri-Columbia) presents a collection of 24 illustrated essays, from 1981 to 2002, providing a critical introduction to the development
of American architectural and urban history. Arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary subjects, they cover European-American approaches to space before the Revolution, the
builders and forms of a newly independent nation, the effects of social and economic changes accompanying post-Civil War expansion, the influences of increased power and international contact
in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, post-WWII modernism and postmodernism, and recent concerns about urban form and public space. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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