2014, ISBN: 9780822956488

The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his… More...

The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his own vision of socialism. In Designing Tito's Capital, Brigitte LeNormand analyzes the unprecedented planning process called for by the new leader, and the determination of planners to create an urban environment that would benefit all citizens. Led first by architect Nikola Dobrovic and later by Milo Somborski, planners blended the predominant school of European modernism and the socialist principles of efficient construction and space usage to produce a model for housing, green space, and working environments for the masses. A major influence was modernist Le Corbusier and his Athens Charter published in 1943, which called for the total reconstruction of European cities, transforming them into compact and verdant vertical cities unfettered by slumlords, private interests, and traffic congestion. As Yugoslavia transitioned toward self-management and market socialism, the functionalist district of New Belgrade and its modern living were lauded as the model city of socialist man. The glow of the utopian ideal would fade by the 1960s, when market socialism had raised expectations for living standards and the government was eager for inhabitants to finance their own housing. By 1972, a new master plan emerged under Aleksandar £ordevic, fashioned with the assistance of American experts. Espousing current theories about systems and rational process planning and using cutting edge computer technology, the new plan left behind the dream for a functionalist Belgrade and instead focused on managing growth trends. While the public resisted aspects of the new planning approachthat seemed contrary to socialist values, it embraced the idea of a decentralized city connected by mass transit. Through extensive archival research and personal interviews with participants in the planning pro ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2a91a828/designing-titos-capital-brigitte-le-normand-9780822962991.jpg|9780822962991|Designing Tito's Capital : Paperback : University of Pittsburgh Press : 9780822962991 : 16 Jul 2014 : Espousing current theories about systems and rational process planning and using cutting edge computer technology, the new plan left behind the dream ...|new|1|1|15|30.5|0|GBP|Brigitte Le Normand|University of Pittsburgh Press|16 Jul 2014|Urban & municipal planning 9780822962380|Women's Poetry|12.25|https://wordery.com/womens-poetry-daisy-fried-9780822962380|Presents a collection of poems focusing on unsettled Americans in a variety of situations, including being trapped on the Tiber bridge by a crowd of neo-fascist thugs, on a train with Princeton seniors who were rejected for Wall Street jobs, and watchingHenry Kissinger leave the Louvre.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/937c9c87/womens-poetry-daisy-fried-9780822962380.jpg|9780822962380|Women's Poetry : Paperback : University of Pittsburgh Press : 9780822962380 : 10 Mar 2013 : Daisy Fried&;s third book of poetry is a book of unsettling, unsettled Americans. Fried finds her Americans everywhere, whether watching Henry Kissinger leave ...|new|1|1|15|13|0|GBP|Daisy Fried|University of Pittsburgh Press|10 Mar 2013|Poetry 9780822956488|Elegy|12.25|https://wordery.com/elegy-larry-levis-9780822956488|A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes"; after Levis's death, Levine edited the poems Levis had left behind. What emerged is this haunting collection, Elegy. The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the wild: an opossum halts traffic and snaps at pedestrians in posh west Los Angeles; a migrant worker falls victim to the bites of two beautiful black widow spiders; horses starve during a Russian famine; a thief, sitting in the rigging of Columbus's ship, contemplates his work in the New World. The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden?the horses, the migrant workers?are worked toward death; a world in which "Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work. / It works for almost nothing"; a world in which "you were no longer permitted to know, / Or to decide for yourself, / Whether there was an angel inside you, or whether there wasn't." Elegy, as Levine says, was "written by one of our essential poets at the very height of his powers. His early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major achievement that will enrich our lives." 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1997, ISBN: 9780822956488

A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had 'an all-but-completed manuscript' of poems. The poems were written… More...

A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had 'an all-but-completed manuscript' of poems. The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the wild: an opossum halts traffic and snaps at pedestrians in posh west Los Angeles; a migrant worker falls victim to the bites of two beautiful black widow spiders; horses starve during a Russian famine; a thief, sitting in the rigging of Columbus's ship, contemplates his work in the New World. The collection culminates in the elegies written to a world in which culture fragments; in which the beasts of burden - the horses, the migrant workers - are worked toward death; a world in which 'Love's an immigrant, it shows itself in its work./ It works for almost nothing'; a world in which 'you were no longer permitted to know, / Or to decide for yourself, /Whether there was an angel inside you, or whether there wasn't'. Buch (fremdspr.) Larry Levis Taschenbuch, Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr, 01.10.1997, Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr, 1997<