Culture, urbanism and planning [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Javier Monclús and Manuel Guàrdia

• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/21609
• Soggetto topico: City planning - History; City planning - Social aspects; Cities and towns; Culture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MonclúsF. J (Francisco Javier) Guàrdia i BassolsManuel <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture, urbanism and planning
• ISBN: 1-317-15577-7; 1-317-15576-9; 1-281-09649-0; 9786611096496; 0-7546-8009-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450900203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Heritage, culture, and identity.