A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

There is a sense, in which the demolition that is taking place through the war has not yet gone far enough. This astonishing stateme nt was made in the thick of the Second World War (1942) by the influential American social and cultural critic Lewis Mumford. In mos t of the cities hit hardest by the air-raids,something akin to planning euphoria did in fact break out at that time. In all the coun tries of Europe, the devastation of the cities was acclaimed as a liberating factor. In this volume, historians and architects from various c...[Read more]