Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua
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| Autore: |
Hermansen Cordua Christian
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| Titolo: |
Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua
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| Pubblicazione: | Farnham, Surrey, England, ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1'216'09034-dc22 |
| 711/.4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning - History |
| Cities and towns - Growth | |
| Urban beautification - History | |
| City and town life - History | |
| Altri autori: | Hermansen CorduaChristian |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city |
| ISBN: | 1-315-59371-8 |
| 1-317-10120-0 | |
| 1-317-10119-7 | |
| 1-282-46280-6 | |
| 9786612462801 | |
| 0-7546-9887-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780839803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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