Tag: China’s Forbidden City

• How Governments Use Architecture

  I wrote this abstract of Vale’s article listed below. The abstract highlights Vale’s attempt to show how governments use architecture to reinforce their ideology or to link their government to the glorious past.  Vale, Lawrence J. “Mediated monuments and national identity.” Journal of Architecture 4.4 (Winter 1999): 391-408. Lawrence J. Vale in this article “explores the relationship…

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  December 21, 2013

  History & Culture

  Babylon, China’s Forbidden City, Mao Zedong, petronas towers, Saddam Hussein, Tienanmen Square, Zimbabwe national identity