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America by design. [videorecording] / produced by Guggenheim Productions, inc. and WTTW Chicago ; produced and directed by Werner Schumann ; written by Spiro Kostof, Werner Schumann.

Publisher: [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Video, 1987Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.Other title: Public places and monuments.Subject(s): Architecture and society -- United States

| Monuments -- United States

| Architecture -- United States -- Conservation and restoration

| Architecture -- United States

DDC classification: 720

Production Credits: Photography, Tim Housel ; editor, Stuart Sillery ; music, Michael

Summary: Visits the sites that are our common ground including parks, monuments, civic centers, libraries, and numerous other spaces and structures that bear witness to those values we hold as a people. Architecture historian Spiro Kostof examines urban renewal efforts, restorations, re-creations, and preservations, and considers the current trend in monuments toward the abstract and symbolic.

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Photography, Tim Housel ; editor, Stuart Sillery ; music, Michael

Visits the sites that are our common ground including parks, monuments, civic centers, libraries, and numerous other spaces and structures that bear witness to those values we hold as a people. Architecture historian Spiro Kostof examines urban renewal efforts, restorations, re-creations, and preservations, and considers the current trend in monuments toward the abstract and symbolic.

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