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Iconic planned communities and the challenge of change / edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, Robert Freestone.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- City in the twenty-first century book series
- The city in the twenty-first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Planned communities--Conservation and restoration.
- Planned communities.
- Planned communities--History.
- Planned communities--Case studies.
- History.
- Conservation and restoration.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 New Lanark: Sustaining Robert Owen's Legacy in Scotland / John Minnery
- ch. 2 Riverside: The First Comprehensively Designed Suburban Community in the United States / David Schuyler
- ch. 3 English Garden Cities: Challenges of Conservation and Change / Mervyn Miller
- ch. 4 Uplands: A Residential Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Larry McCann
- ch. 5 Menteng: Heritage of a Planned Community in a Southeast Asian Megacity / Christopher Silver
- ch. 6 Colonel Light Gardens: History, Heritage, and the Enduring Garden Suburb in Adelaide, South Australia / Robert Freestone
- ch. 7 Den-En Chofu: The First Japanese "Garden City" / Shun-ichi J. Watanabe
- ch. 8 The Jardim America and Pacaembu Garden Suburbs: Facing the Changes to the Metropolis of Sao Paulo / Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade
- ch. 9 Garbatella: Heritage, Gentrification, and Public Policies in Rome, Italy / Sandra Annunziata
- ch. 10 Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn: The Common Legacy and Divergent Experiences of Community Life / John J. Pittari Jr.
- ch. 11 Cite Fruges: Le Corbusier's Paradoxical Appropriation in Pessac, France / Gilles Ragot
- ch. 12 The Romerstadt Settlement: The "New Life" in Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Susan R. Henderson
- ch. 13 Soweto: Planning for Apartheid and Preserving the Garden City Townships of Johannesburg, South Africa / Angel David Nieves
- ch. 14 Wythenshawe: Manchester's Municipal Garden City / Michael Hebbert
- ch. 15 Sabaudia: Foundation, Growth, and Critical Memory in the Last Italian City / Jean-Francois Lejeune
- ch. 16 Greenbelt: Sustaining the New Deal Legacy / Isabelle Gournay
- ch. 17 Batovany-Partizanske: A Functionalist Company Town in Slovakia / Isabelle Gournay
- ch. 18 Tapiola: From Garden City to National Landscape Icon in Finland / Arnold R. Alanen
- ch. 19 Seaside: Iconic Community of the New Urbanism / Steven W. Hurtt
- ch. 20 Iconicity in Planned Communities: The Power of Visual Representations / Isabelle Gournay
- ch. 21 Afterword: Lessons of the Iconic Planned Community / R. Bruce Stephenson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9780812295849
- 0812295846
- Publisher Number:
- 99983985764
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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