Culture, urbanism and planning / / edited by Javier Monclus and Manuel Guardia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807880303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-315-57552-3; 1-317-15577-7; 1-317-15576-9; 1-281-09649-0; 9786611096496; 0-7546-8009-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Heritage, culture, and identity
• Altri autori (Persone): Guardia i BassolsManuel <1949->; MonclusF. J (Francisco Javier)
• Disciplina: 307.1/21609
• Soggetti: City planning - History; City planning - Social aspects; Cities and towns; Culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / F. Javier Monclús and Manuel Guàrdia -- History builds the town : on the uses of history in twentieth-century city planning / Michael Hebbert and Wolfgang Sonne -- The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies : an historical perspective / Robert Freestone and Chris Gibson -- Speak, culture! : culture in planning's past, present, and future / Greg Young -- Capital cities and culture : evolution of twentieth-century capital city planning / David L.A. Gordon -- The power of anticipation : itinerant images of metropolitan futures : Buenos Aires, 1900-1920 / Margarita Gutman -- Words and history : controversies on urban heritage in Italy / Giorgio Piccinato -- Urban destruction or preservation? : conservation movement and planning in twentieth-century Scandinavian capitals / Laura Kolbe -- Planning the historic city : 1960s plans for Bath and York / John Pendelbury -- ; Multiple exposures or new cultural values? : European historical centres and recent immigration fluxes / Alessandro Scarnato -- New urbanism and planning history : back to the future / Christopher Silver -- Branding the city of culture : the death of city planning? / Graeme Evans -- International exhibitions and planning : hosting large-scale events as place promotion and as catalysts of urban regeneration / F. Javier Monclús -- Contemporary urban spectacularisation / Lilian Vaz and Paula Berenstein Jacques -- Culture, tradition and modernity in the Latin American city : some recent experiences / Roberto Segre -- 'Cities are fun!' : inventing and spreading the Baltimore model of cultural urbanism / Stephen V. Ward.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies.