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Mussolini, Architect : Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy.

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Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nicoloso, Paolo
Other Authors: Notini, Sylvia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
Mussolini, Benito, > 1883-1945
Fascism > Italy > History.
Architecture > Italy > History > 20th century.
Fascist propaganda > Italy.
Fascism and architecture > Italy.
Italy > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Fascist propaganda
Fascism and architecture
Fascism
Cultural policy
Architecture
Italy
1900-1999
History
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Travelling to See the Buildings
  • 1 The Myth of the Duce as Inaugurator
  • 2 Building and Fighting
  • 3 Buildings Built to "Endure"
  • 4 In the City Where Fascism Was Born
  • 5 Architects in the Dictator's Entourage
  • 2 Mussolini's Rome
  • 1 The Third Rome
  • 2 Demolishing "with No Holds Barred"
  • 3 The Keen Eye
  • 4 Visits to Building Sites in Rome
  • 5 Architecture and the Legacy of Fascism
  • 6 Rome, "Kingdom of the Unexpected."
  • 7 Rome and Berlin: Parallel Action
  • 8 The North-South Imperial Axis
  • 3 At Palazzo Venezia
  • 1 The Success of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
  • 2 Restoring Augustus
  • 3 Doubts about Terragni
  • 4 The Rejection of Brasini's Grandiose Architecture
  • 5 Mussolini's Oversights
  • 6 Architecture for a Politics of Domination
  • 7 Ponti's Suggestions
  • 8 "Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar's"
  • 9 Moretti Instead of Piacentini?
  • 4 In the Architect's Shoes
  • 1 The Duce Approves
  • 2 The Man with the Diktats
  • 3 With Pencil in Hand
  • 4 Advising the Architects
  • 5 Zigzagging Forward
  • 6 "I'm an Expert on Architecture"
  • 5 Piacentini and Mussolini
  • 1 The Architect of the Littorian Order
  • 2 A Special Rapport
  • 3 Committed to the Party
  • 4 Side by Side
  • 5 In Praise of Organizational Perseverance
  • 6 Architecture towards a Style
  • 1 In Rome's Città Universitaria
  • 2 "Life Today" Requires a "Unity of Direction" in Architecture Too
  • 3 The E42 and the Matter of Style
  • 4 The Swing towards Classicism
  • 5 At the E42 "History Is Built"
  • 6 Terragni's Challenge, Pagano's Silence, Bottai's Dissent
  • 7 The Totalitarian Acceleration and Architecture
  • 1 Architecture for the Myths of the Totalitarian State
  • 2 Piacentini's Architectural Unity
  • 3 For Imperial Rome
  • 4 The 1941 "Variante" of Rome's Urban Development Plan
  • 5 Hitler's Plan for Imperial Berlin
  • 6 For Imperial Milan
  • 7 A National "Unity of Direction"
  • 8 A Private Monopoly in a Totalitarian Regime
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index of Names and Subjects
  • Index of Places

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