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Title: Gold Coast
Condition: New
Subtitle: City and Architecture
Author: Andrew Leach
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781848222298
ISBN: 9781848222298
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 13/04/2018
Description: The Gold Coast is Australia’s most rapidly changing city – regularly compared to Miami and Las Vegas for its embrace of bad taste and the good life; and with Dubai for its sudden moments of high-rise assuredness and seeming lack of restraint in either the ambitions of building or their manifestations.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the city and its architecture, documenting its rise from a series of seaside villages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the present-day city, set to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Considering city plans, architectural works, landscape formations and modes of inhabitation over the time in which the Gold Coast has been peopled, it considers the role of architecture in carrying the city forward. Its main focus is on the contemporary city and the conditions that have given rise to its character - high rise, bad taste and skewed towards the beach edge.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 250mm
Item Length: 190mm
Release Year: 2018

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