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Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket/Not Issued. Ulrike Schmidt & Matin Weißgerber (Design & Layout); Drawing by Charles Graham (Front Cover); Hermann Jansen, District At the Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, 1910 (Back Cover) (illustratore). © Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London. 367 + xxi + pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. No dust jacket. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: Wolfgang Sonne examines the relationship between city planning and politics. He analyzes a handful of exemplary cities: Washington - D.C., Berlin, Canberra, and New Delhi - each of which underwent major reconstruction during the years spanning the turn of the twentieth century and the advent of World War I. He also discusses the failed plans for the World Centre of Communication, an attempt at creating an international city of peace in 1913. Because this era was marked by the heyday of Imperialism and its related illusions of grandeur, the book evokes the clashing and melding of political and architectural ideals - a conundrum that continues to plague city planners today.