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Invented Edens : techno-cities of the twentieth century / Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kargon, Robert H. (Robert Hugh)
- Series:
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Cities and towns.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Telecommunication--Social aspects.
- Telecommunication.
- Social history--20th century.
- Social history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The arc of utopias
- Neotechnics in the garden : the marriage of country and town
- Planning for national regeneration : techno-cities in the interwar years
- Techno-citta : technology and urban design in fascist Italy
- The techno-city goes to war : America in World War II and after
- Utopia revived : from industrial modernism to community
- The city of disciplines : utopia denied, utopia restored
- Techno-nostalgia and the new urbanism
- Conclusion: The fate of the industrial Eden.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-27673-9
- 1-4356-6287-3
- OCLC:
- 245529387
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