Schinkel 'in Athens' : meta-narratives of 19th-century city planning /

Schinkel 'in Athens' : meta-narratives of 19th-century city planning /

This text offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. It challenges the common perception of Schinkel's proposed palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) as a utopian scheme, detached from the...

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Main Author: Karidis, Dimitris N. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022.

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Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, > 1781-1841.
City planning > Greece > Athens > History > 19th century.
City planning > Europe > History.

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Summary:This text offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. It challenges the common perception of Schinkel's proposed palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) as a utopian scheme, detached from the realities of nineteenth-century Greece.
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2022.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781803270692 (PDF ebook) :