Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital

by Ijlal Muzaffar

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after World War II, architects and planners found...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477329668
• ISBN13: 9781477329665
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"