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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783062203321

Titolo

The modern city revisited / / edited by Thomas Deckker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Spon Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-80249-1

1-135-80250-5

1-280-17126-X

0-203-99203-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeckkerThomas

Disciplina

307.1/216

307.1216

Soggetti

City planning

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Communities - Urban Groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART 1 ALTERNATIVE VISIONS; PART 2 VISION VERSUS REALITY; PART 3 THE DECLINE OF MODERNISM; AFTERWORD; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957