Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880

Cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880

Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and glob...

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Otros Autores: Perez, Eduardo, photographer (photographer), Levy, Simon, cover designer (cover designer)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2014.
West Sussex, [England] : 2014.
Edición:Fourth edition
Materias:
City planning > History > 20th century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684436806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 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 Tenements
  • An 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 Over
  • 5 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 Rebuild
  • Urban 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 Debate
  • Controlling 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
  • The Battle for Docklands 32
  • Regeneration in Action: Manchester and Rotterdam
  • The Enterprise Zone Goes Abroad
  • The Attack on Planning
  • 12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque
  • The Global-Informational City: Symbolic Analysts and No-Hopers
  • The Digitalization of the World
  • Planning and Urban Policy: Codification versus Urban Entrepreneurship
  • Thames Gateway: The last 1980s Regeneration Project?
  • The Mega-Project: An Eastern Asian Art Form?
  • The Campaign for Urban Quality.
  • Sustainable Urbanism in Practice: The United Kingdom's Urban Task Force and After
  • The Search for Sustainability
  • New Models for Planning Pilgrims
  • Planning Gain and Social Equity
  • Growth, Equity, and Environment
  • 13 The City of the Permanent Underclass
  • Chicago Discovers the Underclass
  • The Sociologists Invade the Ghetto
  • The Impact of the Ghetto Riots
  • After the Riots
  • The Underclass in Britain
  • Fifteen Years Later: The Attack on Social Exclusion
  • Postscript: August 2011
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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