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

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series Buildings, landscapes, and societies Buildings, landscapes, and societies 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 Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Europe, Central -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century Psychiatric hospitals -- Europe, Central -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century Hospital architecture -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century Hospital architecture -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial. ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Hospital architecture Psychiatric hospitals -- Design and construction Central Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780271079226 0271079223

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