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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design Ser |
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Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Why Utopia? Why Landscape? -- The Garden City -- The Radiant City -- Broadacre City -- Landscape in Utopia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Landscapes as Political Media -- Politics -- Landscapes as Political Media -- Landscapes as Political Media Role #1: Structure of Resource Distribution and Access -- Landscapes as Political Media Role #2: Political Imagination -- Landscapes as Political Media Role #3: Form-Of-Life -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Electricity -- Transportation -- Building Technology -- Technologies of War, Political Will, and Landscape -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Food and Agriculture -- Agriculture and Food in the Garden City -- Food and Agriculture in the Radiant City -- Agriculture and Food in Broadacre City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Leisure -- Leisure in the Garden City -- Leisure in the Radiant City -- Leisure in Broadacre City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Freedom, Cooperation, and Authority -- Cooperation, Freedom, and Authority in the Garden City |
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Cooperation Is the Foundation of Freedom -- Authority Is Derived From Cooperation -- The Individual Is a Free Member of the Collective -- Authority, Freedom, and Cooperation in the Radiant City -- Authority and Where It Comes From -- Cooperation Required By Authority -- Authority and Cooperation Are Justified By the Freedom They Make Possible -- Collective and Individual Freedom -- Freedom, Cooperation, and Authority in the Broadacre City -- Freedom Leads to Cooperation -- Authority Derived From Freedom and Cooperation -- Individual Dominant Concern But Aim Is Healthy Collective Body |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 History, Nature, Agency -- and So, What Next? -- Nature -- Nature and Human Nature in the Garden City -- Nature and Human Nature in the Radiant City -- Nature and Human Nature in Broadacre City -- History -- The Garden City in History -- The Radiant City in History -- Broadacre City in History -- Agency -- Agency Required as the Preconditions of Utopia -- Agency Required for the Implementation of Utopia -- So, What Next? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book examines three landmark utopian visions in 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890's and the 1940's was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labour; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society - including the connections between social relations and the built environment. Landscape and Utopia examines the role of landscapes in the political imaginations of the Garden City, the Radiant City, and Broadacre City. Each project uses landscapes to propose a reconstruction of the relationships between land, labor, and capital but - whilst the projects are well-known - the role played by landscapes has been largely left unexamined. Similarly, the radical anti-capitalism that underpinned each project has similarly been, for the most part, left out of contemporary discussions. This book sets these projects within a historical and philosophical context and opens a discussion on the role of landscapes in society today. This book will be a must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of the history and theory of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture as well as utopian studies, cultural and social history, and environmental theory"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography -- 3 When the Social Order Was a Public Question -- Capital -- Progress and Poverty -- Looking Backward: 2000-1887 -- Fields, Factories, and Workshops -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Land, Capital, and Labor -- The Garden City -- Capital in the Garden City -- Labor in the Garden City -- Land in the Garden City -- The Radiant City -- Land in the Radiant City -- Capital in the Radiant City -- Labor in the Radiant City -- Broadacre City -- Land in Broadacre City -- Labor in Broadacre City -- Capital in Broadacre City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Technology |
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Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928. Tomorrow.
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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. Ville radieuse.
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| SUBJECT |
Tomorrow (Howard, Ebenezer, Sir) fast |
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City planning -- History -- 20th century
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City planning
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351053716 |
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135105371X |
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