The Routledge companion to twentieth and early twenty-first century urban design : a history of shifting manifestoes, paradigms, generic solutions, and specific designs

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The Routledge companion to twentieth and early twenty-first century urban design : a history of shifting manifestoes, paradigms, generic solutions, and specific designs

Jon Lang

(Routledge companions)

Routledge, 2021

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-402) and index

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--Fully illustrated with more than 400 images of urban design from the last 150 years --Fills an important gap as no comprehensive history of the development of modern urban design ideas exists

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Nature of Urban Design Part One: Antecedents of Twentieth Century Urban Design Chapter 1. Religious Canons and Prescriptions Chapter 2. The Classical and Beaux Arts Tradition Chapter 3. Social and Philanthropic Urban Design Chapter 4. The Garden Suburb Chapter 5. The Urbanist Tradition Part Two: Early Twentieth Century Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Concepts, and Specific Designs Chapter 6. The City Beautiful Chapter 7. Modern Empiricism Chapter 8. The Rationalist Response Part Three: Post-World War Two Pragmatic Urban Design and The Rationalist and Empiricist Responses Chapter 9. The Post-World War Two Rationalists Chapter 10. The Post-World War Two Empiricists Chapter 11. The Postmodernist and The Deconstructivist Response Part Four: Urban Design in an Age of Corporate Financial Capital Chapter 12. Modernist, Neo-Modernist, and Hyper-Modernist Urban Design Chapter 13. Hyper-Modernism, Parametricism, and Urban Design Chapter 14. The Empiricist Responses Chapter 15, Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Design Chapter 16. Smart Cities and Urban Design Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward Chapter 17. A Critique of Twenty and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design Chapter 18. The Way Forward: Toward Compact Cities

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