Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / Peter Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Peter, 1932-2014, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--History--20th century.

City planning.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 624 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

"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 global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond. A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges and opportunities Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the author's own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880-1987 1

2 The City of Dreadful Night: Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900 12

3 The City of By-Pass Variegated: The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 49

4 The City in the Garden: The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 90

5 The City in the Region: The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940 149

6 The City of Monuments: The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945 202

7 The City of Towers: The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St Louis, 1920-1970 237

8 The City of Sweat Equity: The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987 291

9 The City on the Highway: The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987 325

10 The City of Theory: Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987 385

11 The City of Enterprise: Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-2000 414

12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque: Infocities and Informotionless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2010 443

13 The City of the Permanent Underclass: The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louts, London, 1920-2011 485.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hall, Peter, 1932 March 19- Cities of tomorrow

ISBN:

9781118456477

1118456475

OCLC:

864808866