1938 Budujeme Velký Zlín

Budujeme Velký Zlín [Building Greater Zlín]. Zlín: Obecní zastupitelstvo města Zlína, 1938. 4to. 79 pp. Folding colour map of Zlín laid in rear. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition; light soiling and wear to covers, map present and complete.

Striking municipal propaganda publication issued by the City of Zlín at the height of the Baťa era, documenting the extraordinary transformation of the Moravian town into a modern industrial metropolis. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs, photomontages, maps, statistical diagrams, and infographics printed in black, red, and blue. Chapters address urban planning, housing, transportation, public health, education, social welfare, and the expansion of Baťa's industrial and civic infrastructure. Includes numerous data visualizations charting population growth, factory employment, housing construction, public services, and health outcomes, together with photographs of modernist architecture and civic institutions.

Designed in the distinctive functionalist graphic language associated with interwar Zlín, combining documentary photography with bold statistical graphics . A vivid record of one of the most ambitious urban-development projects in interwar Czechoslovakia. Complete with the large folding map of Zlín housed in the rear pocket.