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Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

By Alistair Black, Simon Pepper, Kaye Bagshaw

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Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these historic libraries now and proposes that knowledg...Show more

History of architecture

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ISBN

9780815399285

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Inc

Published year

2017

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1

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Books, Buildings and Social Engineering

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Paperback

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