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Designers often focus on the object in front of us\u2014a building or a landscape\u2014but we are less practiced at seeing what was removed to make way for it. In this powerful, evocative book, V. Mitch McEwen inspires us to see \u201cthe surface and protocols of erasure\u201d: cultural and spatial demolition projects that repeat across time and space to make modernism and renewal possible.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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