| Description |
166 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
The Body and the City: An Introductory Essay -- 1. Here Comes the Sun: Port Sunlight, Town Planning and the New Life -- 2. Our Northern Hearts: Architecture, Design and the Art of Right Living -- 3. Live Out of Doors as Much as You Can: The Architecture of Public Health -- 4. Bring the Landscape into the House: Housing for the New Society -- 5. Parks, Pleasure Gardens and the Democracy of the Open Air -- 6. Summer in the City: The Cult of the Lido -- 7. Limits to Growth: Nature and Society Restored -- Coda: Beneath City Skies: New Parks in Europe |
| Summary |
"Here Comes the Sun looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early twentieth century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism, Ken Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in between them - the parks, public squares, open-air museums, promenades, public pools and other leisure facilities. Here Comes the Sun demonstrates how open-air public spaces became sought-after architectural commissions in the early 1900s, resulting in the transformation of the European cityscape."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Public spaces -- Europe -- Design.
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Public spaces -- Social aspects -- Europe.
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City planning -- Europe.
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Urban landscape architecture -- Europe.
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Architecture and society.
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| ISBN |
1861890737 paperback |
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9781861890733 paperback |
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