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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780839803321

Autore

Hermansen Cordua Christian

Titolo

Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England, ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2010

ISBN

1-315-59371-8

1-317-10120-0

1-317-10119-7

1-282-46280-6

9786612462801

0-7546-9887-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Hermansen CorduaChristian

Disciplina

307.1'216'09034-dc22

711/.4

Soggetti

City planning - History

Cities and towns - Growth

Urban beautification - History

City and town life - History

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

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Prologue; Part 1 Introduction: The Context; 2 Utopian Urbanism: Ideals, Practices and Prospects; 3 News from Nowhere: A Utopian Dream; 4 The Word on the Street: Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of their Time; Part 2 Manifestoes: Urban Visions; 5 The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización; 6 Exporting the German Model: Managing Urban Growth at the Turn of the 1900's; 7 Camillo Sitte: City Planning According to Artistic Principles, Vienna 1889

8 Mr Howard and the Garden City: A Plain Man's Guide to the Future 9 Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: The Writing and the Readings of an Intempestive Classic; Part 3 Transformations: Urban Praxis; 10 Making London's Modernity: Capital, Memory and Nature; 11 Paris Space: What Might Have Constituted Haussmanization; 12 The Eixample



(Ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and After): Theoretical and Practical Paradigm; 13 The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse; 14 Berlin 1900; 15 Urban Planning as Representation: An Examination of Harald Hals's General Plan for Oslo 1929; 16 Epilogue

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city.