The age of spectacle : the rise and fall of iconic architecture

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"Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, The Age of Spectacle examines how 21st-century cities work and how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious. Looking at some of the most iconic structures in the world over the last fifty years, such as the Shard, the Guggenheim and the 'Bird's Nest' Stadium in Beijing, Tom Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work."--Back cover