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Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears univers
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- Author
- Urban, Florian.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis (CAM)
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781283443302
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Architecture
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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