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Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass hous&#xAC;ing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang a city of three million inhabitants rising from the rubble to which the Korean War reducedit in the 1950s. This architectural guide to the capital of the Democratic People s Republic of Korea has two parts comprising a total of 368 pages. While Volume 1 offers a selection of images and information on nearly one hundred buildings in Pyongyang provided by the PyongyangForeign Languages Publishing House and presented here without further commentary, Volume 2 sets this material within its architectural and historical context. <br><br> The Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang offers unprecedented insights into the capital of what is probably the most isolated country in the world, ruled in the third generation by a first family stubbornly upholding its own brand of stone-age communism. — Testi: Meuser Philipp. F.to: 13,5x24,5; pagg. 368; 450 ills; rileg. brossura. Editore: DOM Publishers, Berlin, 2012.