Designing the modern city : urbanism since 1850 / Eric Mumford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

City planning--History.

City planning.

Urban policy--History.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Urbanism since 1850

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.

Contents:

Chapter One. The Emergence of Modern Urbanism: European Cities in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Two. Cities in the Americas and the International Influence of the City Beautiful Movement

Chapter Three. From Tenement Reform to Regional Planning, 1840-1932

Chapter Four. The Emergence of Avant-Garde Urbanism in the 1920s and 1930s

Chapter Five. Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern Urbanism

Chapter Six. Urban Design, Team 10, and Metabolism After 1953

Chapter Seven. Crisis of Utopia: Rejections and Revisions of Modern Planning

Chapter Eight. Globalization and Urbanism from the 1950s to the Present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on July 1, 2019).

ISBN:

9780300250947

0300250940

9780300230390

0300230397

OCLC:

1035947674