In the suburbs of history modernist visions of the urban periphery

"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban developmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: University of Toronto. Library, funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Logan, Steven, 1974- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press [2021]
Colección:Global suburbanisms.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009671476106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Crossing Divides
  • Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb
  • Socialist Space
  • South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings
  • Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape
  • The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern
  • Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core.