Non Fiction, An extraordinary book, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, Criticism, Cultural studies, Modernism, Modernity, Urban studies, "For most of my life, since I learned that I was living in ‘a modern building’ and growing up as part of ‘a modern family, ’ in the Bronx of thirty years ago, I have been fascinated by the meanings of modernity. In this book, I have tried to open up some of these dimensions of meaning, to explore and chart the adventures and horrors, the ambiguities and ironies of modern life. The book moves and develops through a number of ways of reading: of text - Goethe's Faust, the Communist Manifesto, Notes from Underground, and many more; but also I try to read spatial and social environments - small towns, big construction sites, dams and power plants, Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, Hausmann's Parisian boulevards, Petersburg prospects, Robert Mose's highways through New York...”; First published by Penguin Books, New York, 1982; First Italian edition, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985, under the title: "L'esperienza della modernità" ( )

Very interesting especally the section on Brasilia. ( )