Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century

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Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century

Peter Hall

Blackwell Publishers, 1996

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Bibliography: p. [423]-480

Includes index

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ISBN 9780631199427

Description

This volume sets out to provide a critical history of planning in theory and practice throughout the world in the 20th century. This edition covers developments in the late 1980s and 1990s: the architect has re-emerged as an international figure, and the role of planning has been restored - at least in part - in North America, Europe and elsewhere. The problem of the underclass has, as the author forecast it would, become acute. These and other crucial developments are covered in two extensive new chapters. In addition, the author has taken the opportunity to up-date content and references throughout the book.

Table of Contents

  • Cities of imagination
  • the city of dreadful night
  • the city of by-pass variegated
  • the city in the garden
  • the city in the region
  • the city of monuments
  • the city of towers
  • the city of sweat equity
  • the city on the highway
  • the city of theory
  • the city of enterprise
  • the city of the permanent underclass
  • the city of the tarnished golden age.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631199434

Description

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Cities of Imagination. 2. The City of Dreadful Night. 3. The City of By-Pass Variegated. 4. The City in the Garden. 5. The City in the Region. 6. The City of Monuments. 7. The City of Towers. 8. The City of Sweat Equity. 9. The City on the Highway. 10. The City of Theory. 11. The City of Enterprise. 12. The City of the Permanent Underclass. 13. The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque. References. A Note on Literature Published Since 1986. Index.

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