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Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hermansen Cordua, Christian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--History--Case studies.
- City planning.
- Cities and towns--Growth--Case studies.
- Cities and towns.
- Urban beautification--History--Case studies.
- Urban beautification.
- City and town life--History--Case studies.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England, ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Prologue; Part 1 Introduction: The Context; 2 Utopian Urbanism: Ideals, Practices and Prospects; 3 News from Nowhere: A Utopian Dream; 4 The Word on the Street: Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of their Time; Part 2 Manifestoes: Urban Visions; 5 The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización; 6 Exporting the German Model: Managing Urban Growth at the Turn of the 1900's; 7 Camillo Sitte: City Planning According to Artistic Principles, Vienna 1889
- 8 Mr Howard and the Garden City: A Plain Man's Guide to the Future 9 Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: The Writing and the Readings of an Intempestive Classic; Part 3 Transformations: Urban Praxis; 10 Making London's Modernity: Capital, Memory and Nature; 11 Paris Space: What Might Have Constituted Haussmanization; 12 The Eixample (Ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and After): Theoretical and Practical Paradigm; 13 The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse; 14 Berlin 1900; 15 Urban Planning as Representation: An Examination of Harald Hals's General Plan for Oslo 1929; 16 Epilogue
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-59371-8
- 1-317-10120-0
- 1-317-10119-7
- 1-282-46280-6
- 9786612462801
- 0-7546-9887-4
- 9781315593715
- OCLC:
- 651599396
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