Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past

First US edition. 224pp. hardback in dust jacket. Slight age-toning to leaves as usual. Jacket rubbed; a little chipped to head of spine. *** Reyner Banham’s classic text on the rise and fall of the modernist dream of the Megastructure – “a bold, if doomed, attempt to create the future in a architectural mould”. With copious b/w illustrations throughout.