“…This volume about Cornelis van Eesteren (18971988) and CIAM fills a hiatus in the existing literature. The main focus is CIAM’s legendary fourth congress about ‘The Functional City’, which was held in the summer of 1933 and chaired by Van Eesteren. …”

“…First, that we need to unravel rather than cherry-pick between the conflicting accounts of Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius, our three main sources of information. And second, that the role of the armies, as distinct from that of their commanders, has too often been exaggerated. …”

Sumario