Jaqueline Tyrwhitt : a transnational life in urban planning and design / Ellen Shoshkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoshkes, Ellen, author.

Series:

Design and the built environment series.

Design and the built environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyrwhitt, Jaqueline.

City planners--Great Britain--Biography.

City planners.

Women city planners--Great Britain--Biography.

Women city planners.

City planning--Great Britain--History--20th century.

City planning.

City planning--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, a British town planner, editor, and educator who was at the center of the group of people who shaped the postwar Modern Movement played a central role in Twentieth Century design history and yet her contributions to planning and urban design education and practice, mapping, CIAM discourse are largely unacknowledged. This intellectual biography not only details these landmark contributions, working alongside Geddes, Sert, Giedion and Doxiadis, but also indicates their relevance for contemporary scholars and practitioners, particularly those concerned with 'healthy' community

Contents:

pt. I. 1905-1940

pt. II. 1941-1945

pt. III. 1945-1949

pt. IV. 1949-1956

pt. V. 1955-1972.

Notes:

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-11128-1

1-317-11127-3

1-315-59035-2

1-299-39819-7

1-4094-1779-4

9781315590356

OCLC:

1018161070