Visionaries and planners [[electronic resource] ] : the garden city movement and the modern community / / Stanley Buder

• Autore: Buder Stanley
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76/8
• Soggetto topico: Garden cities; Garden cities - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. An Inward Quest; 2. Land Reform in an Urban Age; 3. Ebenezer Howard and Hard Times; 4. The American Cooperative Commonwealth; 5. Toward a New Urban Vision: Howard in the 1890's; 6. The Search for Environment; 7. The Building of a Garden City, 1899-1920; 8. The Garden City and Town Planning, 1903-1918; 9. Howard and Welwyn Garden City, 1910-1940; 10. The International Movement, 1900-1940; 11. The Garden City Movement in America, 1900-1941; 12. British New Towns, 1945-1980; 13. The Future of the Garden City; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned ""garden cities"" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the ""master key"" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban
• Titolo autorizzato: Visionaries and planners
• ISBN: 1-280-52439-1; 1-4237-3722-9; 0-19-536288-8; 1-60129-752-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449691603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II