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Author Logan, Steven, 1974- author.

Title In the suburbs of history modernist visions of the urban periphery / Steven Logan
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Global suburbanisms
Global suburbanisms.
Contents Introduction: Crossing Divides -- Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb -- Socialist Space -- South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings -- Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape -- The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern -- Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core
Summary "In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index (pages 213-225)
Subject Suburbs -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
Suburbs -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
City planning -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and architecture -- Ontario -- Toronto
National socialism and architecture -- Czech Republic -- Prague
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
City planning
National socialism and architecture
Suburbs
Czech Republic -- Prague
Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487537142
148753714X
9781487537159
1487537158
9781487541385
1487541384
Other Titles In the Suburbs of History: Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery