Mr. Abeels runs a flower shop about to enter modernity: imagine, through the miracle of plastics, flowers that never fade! His novelty is snatched up by the ambitious city planners of an all-new Brusel. No more lack of hygiene! No more dusty old buildings! All is razed and enormous new skyscrapers are erected at blistering speed! Never mind the disruptions and uprootings of people's lives! Abeels falls in love with a renegade woman who fights the extensive redesigns and ends up having to play both sides carefully... This ...
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Mr. Abeels runs a flower shop about to enter modernity: imagine, through the miracle of plastics, flowers that never fade! His novelty is snatched up by the ambitious city planners of an all-new Brusel. No more lack of hygiene! No more dusty old buildings! All is razed and enormous new skyscrapers are erected at blistering speed! Never mind the disruptions and uprootings of people's lives! Abeels falls in love with a renegade woman who fights the extensive redesigns and ends up having to play both sides carefully... This world has been so successful in Europe as to elicit metro stations in Paris and Brussels designed after it!
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Add this copy of Cities of the Fantastic: Brusel to cart. $130.97, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Nbm Pub Co.
