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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452429803321

Autore

Shoshkes Ellen

Titolo

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt : a transnational life in urban planning and design / / Ellen Shoshkes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-11128-1

1-317-11127-3

1-315-59035-2

1-299-39819-7

1-4094-1779-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Design and the built environment

Disciplina

711.4092

Soggetti

City planners - Great Britain

Women city planners - Great Britain

City planning - Great Britain - History - 20th century

City planning - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. 1905-1940 -- pt. II. 1941-1945 -- pt. III. 1945-1949 -- pt. IV. 1949-1956 -- pt. V. 1955-1972.

Sommario/riassunto

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, a British town planner, editor, and educator who was at the center of the group of people who shaped the postwar Modern Movement played a central role in Twentieth Century design history and yet her contributions to planning and urban design education and practice, mapping, CIAM discourse are largely unacknowledged. This intellectual biography not only details these landmark contributions, working alongside Geddes, Sert, Giedion and Doxiadis, but also indicates their relevance for contemporary scholars and practitioners, particularly those concerned with 'healthy' community