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Urban utopias in the twentieth century : Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection HT161 .F57 1982
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LIBRA HT161 .F57 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fishman, Robert, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns.
- City planning.
- Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928.
- Howard, Ebenezer.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd.
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
- Le Corbusier.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 332 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First MIT Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1982, c1977.
- Summary:
- As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they '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.'
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 306-323.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0262560232
- OCLC:
- 8346530
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