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Lineages of the Global City
Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
University of Texas Press
The Earth That Modernism Built
Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design
By Kenny Cupers
University of Texas Press
Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.
Taking the Land to Make the City
A Bicoastal History of North America
By Mary P. Ryan
University of Texas Press
The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.
Modernism’s Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
University of Texas Press
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
Building Little Saigon
Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs
University of Texas Press
An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.
Building Antebellum New Orleans
Free People of Color and Their Influence
By Tara Dudley
University of Texas Press
A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
By Noam Shoked
University of Texas Press
An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.
Shifting Sands
Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
By Xiaoxuan Lu
University of Texas Press
How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Modernity for the Masses
Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
University of Texas Press
A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.
Landed Internationals
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Burak Erdim
University of Texas Press
Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
University of Texas Press
The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the “science” of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization.
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