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The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília

James Holston · University of Chicago Press · 1989

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James Holston
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 0226349780.

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TheoryScott argued that the worst failures of state planning combined four elements: administrative ordering of nature and society, high-modernist ideology, an authoritarian state willing to use coercion, and a prostrate civil society unable to resist.