| Autore |
Hall Peter <1932 March 19->
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| Edizione | [Fourth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
West Sussex, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (642 p.)
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| Disciplina |
307.1/2160904
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| Soggetto topico |
City planning - History - 20th century
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
1-118-45651-3
1-118-45650-5
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| Classificazione |
SOC026030
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions Of The Good City, 1880-1987; The Anarchist Roots of the Planning Movement; A Warning: Some Boulders in the Trail; A Guide through the Maze; 2 The City of Dreadful Night; The Bitter Cry; The British Royal Commission of 1885; Depression, Violence, and the Threat of Insurrection; The Booth Survey: The Problem Quantified; The Slum City in Europe
New York: The Tumor in the TenementsAn International Problem; 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated; The London County Council Starts to Build; The First Town-Planning Schemes; New York Discovers Zoning; London: The Tube Brings Suburban Sprawl; The Legacy of Tudor Walters; The Building of Suburbia; The Architects' Revenge; 4 The City in the Garden; The Sources of Howard's Ideas; The Garden City and the Social City; Letchworth and Hampstead: Unwin and Parker; The Garden-City Movement between the Wars; The Garden City in Europe; Garden Cities in Far Places; Garden Cities for America
New Towns for Britain: The State Takes Over5 The City in the Region; Geddes and the Anarchist Tradition; The Regional Planning Association of America; The RPAA versus the Regional Plan of New York; New Deal Planning; The TVA; The Vision Realized: London; 6 The City of Monuments; Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement in America; The City Beautiful in the British Raj; Canberra: City Beautiful Exceptional; The City Beautiful and the Great Dictators; 7 The City of Towers; The Corbusian Ideal City; The Planning of Chandigarh; Brasília: The Quasi-Corbusian City; The Corbusians Come to Britain
The Great RebuildUrban Renewal in America; Counter-Attack: Jacobs and Newman; The Dynamiting of Pruitt-Igoe; The Corbusian Legacy; 8 The City of Sweat Equity; Geddes Goes to India; Arcadia for All at Peacehaven; Turner Goes to Peru; China Goes to the Mountains and the Country; Autonomy in the First World: Wright to Alexander; The Great War against Urban Renewal; The War Comes to Europe; Community Architecture Arrives in Britain; 9 The City on the Highway; A Wellsian Prophecy is Fulfilled; Los Angeles Shows the Way 28; Frank Lloyd Wright and the Soviet Deurbanists; "The Suburbs Are Coming!"
Suburbia: The Great DebateControlling Suburban Growth in Europe; Squaring the Circle: Planning the European Metropolis; The Stockholm Alternative 189; Paris: Haussmann Revisited; The Great Freeway Revolt and After; 10 The City of Theory; The Prehistory of Academic City Planning: 1930-1955; The Systems Revolution; The Search for a New Paradigm; The Marxist Ascendancy; The Continuing Divorce of Theory and Practice: Postmodern Theory Exits from the World as We Know It 95; The World Outside the Tower: Practice Retreats from Theory; 11 The City of Enterprise; The Rousification of America
The Great Enterprise Zone Debate
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465617403321 |
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Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / / Peter Hall ; Eduardo Perez, photography ; cover design by Simon Levy
