Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / Peter Hall ; Eduardo Perez, photography ; cover design by Simon Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Peter, 1932-2014, author.

Contributor:

Pérez, Eduardo, photographer.

Levy, Simon, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--History--20th century.

City planning.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (642 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, [England] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

System Details:

text file

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.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Hall, Peter, 1932 March 19- Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880.

ISBN:

9781118456507

OCLC:

880453059

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.