Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua

• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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: 1-317-10120-0; 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.: 9910456736103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II