Can someone point me to a modern treatment of the Veblen-Young characterization of projective spaces of dimension greater than $2$ as $P(V)$ for some vector space $V$?


[**Added**: see [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_space#Axioms_for_projective_space) for a statement of the Veblen-Young Theorem. The article includes a reference to the two-volume work of Veblen and Young in which the result was first proved. --PLC]


A precise reference to the original work where this appeared would also be very useful!



Reference on the Veblen-Young characterization of projective spaces
The 2-volume book by Veblen and Young is an obvious reference for the original proof. A modern reformulation of their result is the work of Tits classifying buildings of rank at least 3 in terms of algebraic groups over fields. 


