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988810
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Barnstone, Deborah Ascher.
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The transparent state : : architecture and politics in postwar Germany /\ Deborah Ascher Barnstone.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Routledge,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xviii, 273 pages) :: illustrations, portraits
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| ISBN
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0203799887
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: 9780415700191
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: 9781135996420
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: 9781135996468
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0203799887
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0415700183
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0415700191
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1 Transparency ideology -- chapter 2 Transparency in German architecture before and after the War -- chapter 3 The quest for an open society -- chapter 4 Looking in the mirror -- Transparency after 1989 -- chapter 5 A metaphor for the new Germany -- chapter 6 House of openness, architecture of encounter -- chapter 7 Coming to terms with the past -- Transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag -- chapter 8 Why transparency?
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'The Transparent State' studies how the idea of transparency, a metaphor borrowed from political thought became an analogy for democratic architecture in postwar West Germany & led to the prevailing belief that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility & greater democracy.
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Architecture and state-- Germany.
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Public buildings-- Germany.
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Transparency in architecture-- Germany.
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Transparency in government-- Germany.
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Architecture and state.
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ARCHITECTURE-- Buildings-- Public, Commercial Industrial.
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Public buildings.
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Transparency in architecture.
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Transparency in government.
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Germany, History, 1945-
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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725.1/0943/09045
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| LC Classification
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NA4299.B37 2005eb
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