By the People: Designing a Better America
- ISBN-10
- 1942303149
- ISBN-13
- 9781942303145
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cooper Hewitt
- Author
- Cynthia E. Smith
Description
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "By the People: Designing a Better America" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, September 30, 2016-February 26, 2017.
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- 2015-04-22
- 880 pages
- Paperback
- Pearson
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