Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century

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The utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Howard created the concept of the “garden city” where shops and cottages formed the center of a geometric pattern with farmland surrounding; Wright conceived of “Broadacre City,” the ultimate suburb, where the automobile was king; and Le Corbusier imagined “Ville Radieuse,” the city of cruciform skyscrapers set down in open parkland.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Robert Fishman
Publisher : MIT Press
Release : 1982-09-16
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0262560232


The Rhetoric Of The City

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Opole)

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Paweł Marcinkiewicz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release : 2009
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 363159755X


Manifestoes And Transformations In The Early Modernist City

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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.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Christian Hermansen Cordua
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release : 2010
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0754679489


Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century

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Release : 1982
File : 332 Pages
ISBN-13 : OCLC:927595874


A Theory Of Urbanity

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Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also, and above all, emotionally. We like some cities and detest others. Despite shared rationalizations and common modes of administration and design, each city has its own culture. A culture is typically human in that it contains all dimensions of the human, personal condition--from the lowest to the most sublime. Urban culture comprises both economic and civic culture, and is the source of a city's vitality. For today's urban sprawls, which have a weak and failing economic and civic culture, the task of the urban administration and various economic and civic organizations is to strengthen conditions that can prevent the emergence of urban anomie. With suburbanization, the edge city, and the emergence of cyberspace, some argue that cities, as integrated places of working and living, are things of the past. Zijderveld argues that people are and remain social animals, who like and need one another's company, particularly in their economic, socio-cultural, and political activities. Throughout the ages, cities have provided the environment in which people fulfill these needs. Anton Zijderveld discusses urban preferences, the organizations and ramifications of urbanity, the modernization of urban culture, the uneasy alliance between urbanity and the interventionist state, and the cultural dimensions of urban renewal. Zijderveld sees the economic and civic culture of the city as the centerpiece of contemporary urban management and contemporary urban democracy. In this sense, the new technology is an ally of the new urban renewal. Most postmodern treatises on the end of the city are impressionistic and unsystematic. In contrast, Zijderveld puts the qualitative dimensions of city life into focus, catching its pulse and cultural rhythms in a systematic context that prior studies have lacked. As such, it will be of great interest to urban administrators, planning experts, and students of urban studies.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Anton C. Zijderveld
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Release : 2011-12-31
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781412813860


Frank Lloyd Wright S Fallingwater

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New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable Mention Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater. The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building, recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American architect could achieve with the right site, client, and circumstance, even in desperate economic circumstances. Using newly available resources, author Catherine W. Zipf examines Wright’s work before and after Fallingwater to show how it was influenced by the economic climate, public architectural projects of the Great Depression, and America’s changing relationship with Modernist style and technology. Including over 50 black-and-white images, this book will be of great interest to students, historians, and researchers of art, architecture, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Catherine W Zipf
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2020-12-30
File : 202 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317242307


Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia

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The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Nathaniel Robert Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2020-11-17
File : 583 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192605870


Modernism And The Spirit Of The City

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This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release : 2003
File : 276 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415258405


The Garden City Utopia

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Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument. But Howard was more than a town planner. He was first and foremost a social reformer, and his garden city was intended to be merely the first step towards a new social and industrial order based on common ownership of land. This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

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Genre : Science
Author : Robert Beevers
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1988-02-02
File : 214 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349190331


Yard Street Park

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This insightful analysis of the history of suburban development takes a hard look at more than a century of suburban planning and analyzes developer-designed suburbs. Most importantly, it offers a dynamic approach to suburban development, rooted in historical examples and based on open space planning methods that can be applied to new or existing developments.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Cynthia L. Girling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 1996-11-06
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0471178446