Architecture, Power, and National Identity

by Vale, Lawrence J.

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Full title :Architecture, Power, and National Identity / Lawrence J. Vale.

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This new, expanded edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity examines how architecture and urban design have been manipulated in the service of politics. Focusing on the design of parliamentary complexes in capital cities across the world, it shows how these places reveal the struggles for power and identity in multi-cultural nation states. Building on the prize-winning first edition, Vale updates the text and illustrations to account for recent socio-political changes, includes discussion of several newly-built places, and assesses the enhanced concerns for security that have preoccupied regimes in politically volatile countries. The book is truly global in scope, looking at capital cities in North America and Europe, as well as in India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Ultimately, Vale presents an engaging, incisive combination of history, politics, and architecture to chart the evolution of state power and national identity, updated for the twenty-first century.