Freedom and the cage modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914 / Leslie Topp.

Author/creator Topp, Leslie, 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxxii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesBuildings, landscapes, and societies
Buildings, landscapes, and societies. ^A984171
Contents The free institution -- Regions, nationalism, and the asylum as a political project -- "A white city shimmering" : the rhetorical heightening of control -- Utopia in process in Vienna's hinterland -- Spaces -- Boundaries.
Abstract "Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016034219
ISBN9780271077109 (cloth : alk. paper)