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Urban planning and the pursuit of happiness : European variations on a universal theme (18th-21st centuries) / Arnold Bartetzky, Marc Schalenberg (eds.) ; with the assistance of Louise Bromby and Christian Dietz.
Fine Arts Library HT169.E85 U82 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Europe--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- City planning.
- Architecture, Domestic--Europe--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Housing--Europe--Case studies.
- Housing.
- Housing policy--Europe--Case studies.
- Housing policy.
- Personal space--Europe--Planning--History.
- Personal space.
- Public spaces--Europe--Planning--History.
- Public spaces.
- Happiness--Europe.
- Happiness.
- Planning.
- History.
- Psychological aspects.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Urban planning and the pursuit of happiness, European variations on a universal theme (eighteenth to twenty-first centuries)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Jovis Diskurs, [2009]
- Summary:
- Urban planning is not just about the shaping of floor spaces or building complexes. It also implies promises for a better life. The technological, artistic, political, and social visions of planners and their patrons are related, explicitly or otherwise, to the universal idea of a pursuit of happiness. This does not mean they always match the needs of the people concerned; the inhabitants' actual usages and appropriations of urban spaces may even undermine their original conceptions. Both "pursuits" -by those in charge and by the users of urban planning projects-are tackled in this volume, which assembles a dozen case studies from various European countries from the Enlightenment to the present.
- Contents:
- Shapes of Happiness: Planning Concepts and their Manifestations in Urban Form / Arnold Bartetzky, Marc Schalenberg 6
- "Glückselige Std̃te" : Johann Peter Willebrand's Conception of Urban Happiness / Mascha Bisping 18
- The Changing Pattern: of Urban Form in Relation to the Perception of Happiness in Georgian Birmingham / Mohsen Aboutorabi, Andreas Wesener 34
- "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" : Liberalism and the Image of the City in German Planning Theory around 1870 / Christa Kamleithner 52
- The Attraction of Heimat: Homeland Protection in Vienna around 1900, or the Preservation and Reform of the City
- Happiness Through Discipline: Soviet Cities in the Travelogues of Foreign Visitors in the Nineteen-twenties and Nineteen-thirties
- "... A Better, Happier World" : Visions of a New Warsaw after World War Two / Jacek Friedrich 98
- Happy Living in a New Socialist Town: The Construction, Distribution, Management, and Inhabitation of Apartments in Post-War Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia / Ana Kladnik 116
- Does Urban Life Make Farmers Happy?: The Central Settlements of Collective Farms in the Estonian SSR / Mart Kalm 128
- New Horizons: The Representation of Ideal Practices in a Modern City: Firminy-Vert 1959 / Clarisse Lauras 148
- "On Holiday 365 Days a Year" on the Outskirts of Rome: Urban Form, Lifestyles, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Suburb of Casalpalocco, ca. 1955-1980 / Bruno Bonomo 168
- A Paradise Behind Gates and Walls: Gated Communities in Eastern Europe and the Promise of Happiness / Jacek Ga̧decki, Christian Smigiel 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783868590203
- 386859020X
- OCLC:
- 326585631
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