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1 online resource (793 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Praise for previous editions of Cities of Tomorrow -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Figures -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Cities of Imagination -- The Anarchist Roots of the Planning Movement -- A Warning: Some Boulders in the Trail -- A Guide through the Maze -- 2 The City of Dreadful Night -- The Bitter Cry -- The British Royal Commission of 1885 -- Depression, Violence, and the Threat of Insurrection -- The Booth Survey: The Problem Quantified -- The Slum City in Europe |
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New York: The Tumor in the Tenements -- An International Problem -- 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated -- The London County Council Starts to Build -- The First Town-Planning Schemes -- New York Discovers Zoning -- London: The Tube Brings Suburban Sprawl -- The Legacy of Tudor Walters -- The Building of Suburbia -- The Architects' Revenge -- 4 The City in the Garden -- The Sources of Howard's Ideas -- The Garden City and the Social City -- Letchworth and Hampstead: Unwin and Parker -- The Garden-City Movement between the Wars -- The Garden City in Europe -- Garden Cities in Far Places |
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Garden Cities for America -- New Towns for Britain: The State Takes Over -- 5 The City in the Region -- Geddes and the Anarchist Tradition -- The Regional Planning Association of America -- The RPAA versus the Regional Plan of New York -- New Deal Planning -- The TVA -- The Vision Realized: London -- 6 The City of Monuments -- Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement in America -- The City Beautiful in the British Raj -- Canberra: City Beautiful Exceptional -- The City Beautiful and the Great Dictators -- 7 The City of Towers -- The Corbusian Ideal City -- The Planning of Chandigarh |
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BrasÃlia: The Quasi-Corbusian City -- The Corbusians Come to Britain -- The Great Rebuild -- Urban Renewal in America -- Counter-Attack: Jacobs and Newman -- The Dynamiting of Pruitt-Igoe -- The Corbusian Legacy -- 8 The City of Sweat Equity -- Geddes Goes to India -- Arcadia for All at Peacehaven -- Turner Goes to Peru -- China Goes to the Mountains and the Country -- Autonomy in the First World: Wright to Alexander -- The Great War against Urban Renewal -- The War Comes to Europe -- Community Architecture Arrives in Britain -- 9 The City on the Highway -- A Wellsian Prophecy is Fulfilled |
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Los Angeles Shows the Way28 -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Soviet Deurbanists -- "The Suburbs Are Coming!" -- Suburbia: The Great Debate -- Controlling Suburban Growth in Europe -- Squaring the Circle: Planning the European Metropolis -- The Stockholm Alternative189 -- Paris: Haussmann Revisited -- The Great Freeway Revolt and After -- 10 The City of Theory -- The Prehistory of Academic City Planning: 1930-1955 -- The Systems Revolution -- The Search for a New Paradigm -- The Marxist Ascendancy -- The Continuing Divorce of Theory and Practice: Postmodern Theory Exits from the World as We Know It95 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The World Outside the Tower: Practice Retreats from Theory |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118456514 |
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1118456513 |
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