Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / / Peter Hall ; Eduardo Perez, photography ; cover design by Simon Levy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465617403321
• Autore: Hall Peter <1932 March 19->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: West Sussex, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-118-45651-3; 1-118-45650-5
• Edizione: [Fourth edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Classificazione: SOC026030
• Disciplina: 307.1/2160904
• Soggetti: City planning - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions Of The Good City, 1880-1987; The Anarchist Roots of the Planning Movement; A Warning: Some Boulders in the Trail; A Guide through the Maze; 2 The City of Dreadful Night; The Bitter Cry; The British Royal Commission of 1885; Depression, Violence, and the Threat of Insurrection; The Booth Survey: The Problem Quantified; The Slum City in Europe; New York: The Tumor in the TenementsAn International Problem; 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated; The London County Council Starts to Build; The First Town-Planning Schemes; New York Discovers Zoning; London: The Tube Brings Suburban Sprawl; The Legacy of Tudor Walters; The Building of Suburbia; The Architects' Revenge; 4 The City in the Garden; The Sources of Howard's Ideas; The Garden City and the Social City; Letchworth and Hampstead: Unwin and Parker; The Garden-City Movement between the Wars; The Garden City in Europe; Garden Cities in Far Places; Garden Cities for America; New Towns for Britain: The State Takes Over5 The City in the Region; Geddes and the Anarchist Tradition; The Regional Planning Association ; of America; The RPAA versus the Regional Plan of New York; New Deal Planning; The TVA; The Vision Realized: London; 6 The City of Monuments; Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement in America; The City Beautiful in the British Raj; Canberra: City Beautiful Exceptional; The City Beautiful and the Great Dictators; 7 The City of Towers; The Corbusian Ideal City; The Planning of Chandigarh; Brasília: The Quasi-Corbusian City; The Corbusians Come to Britain; The Great RebuildUrban Renewal in America; Counter-Attack: Jacobs and Newman; The Dynamiting of Pruitt-Igoe; The Corbusian Legacy; 8 The City of Sweat Equity; Geddes Goes to India; Arcadia for All at Peacehaven; Turner Goes to Peru; China Goes to the Mountains and the Country; Autonomy in the First World: Wright to Alexander; The Great War against Urban Renewal; The War Comes to Europe; Community Architecture Arrives in Britain; 9 The City on the Highway; A Wellsian Prophecy is Fulfilled; Los Angeles Shows the Way 28; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Soviet Deurbanists; "The Suburbs Are Coming!"; Suburbia: The Great DebateControlling Suburban Growth in Europe; Squaring the Circle: Planning the European Metropolis; The Stockholm Alternative 189; Paris: Haussmann Revisited; The Great Freeway Revolt and After; 10 The City of Theory; The Prehistory of Academic City Planning: 1930-1955; The Systems Revolution; The Search for a New Paradigm; The Marxist Ascendancy; The Continuing Divorce of Theory and Practice: Postmodern Theory Exits from the World as We Know It 95; The World Outside the Tower: Practice Retreats from Theory; 11 The City of Enterprise; The Rousification of America; The Great Enterprise Zone Debate
• Sommario/riassunto: "Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond. A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges and opportunities Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the author's own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth "--