Klingan, Katrin

A Utopia of Modernity: Zlin, Revisiting Bata's Functional City. Jovis. 2010

Book ID: 85388

Located in the Czech Republic, the city of Zl’n is a curious example of civic planning in which domestic living, education and recreation were all geared towards a single goal: the profitability of the Bata shoe company, one of the first footwear manufacturers to operate globally. This anthology presents articles by architects, sociologists and urban theorists on the phenomenon that is Zl’n, after a symposium held in 2009.

304 pp. b&w and color illus. Pap.