Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
ISBN: 978-0-419-25640-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.
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Foreword: The City after Now. Introduction: The Modern City Revisited. Part 1: Alternative Visions. Part 2: Vision vs. Reality. Part 3: The Decline of Modernism. Afterword: The Modern city Revisited - Envoi.
The city after now. Introduction: The modern city revisited. Part One: Alternative visions: Bernd Nicolai - The symphony of the metropolis. Catherine Cooke - Cities of socialism: technology and ideology in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. James Dunnett - Cities without streets: the vertical garden city. John Gold - Towards the functional city? MARS, CIAM and the London plans 1933-1942. Part Two: Vision vs. reality: John Allan - Lubetkin and Peterlee. Judi Loach - Italian rationalism and the Quartiere Triennale 8, Milan. Andrew Higgott - Birmingham: Buiding the modern city. Thomas Dekker - Brasilia: city vs. landscape. Part Three: The decline of modernism: Post-war town planning in its mid-life crisis: dilemmas in redevelopment. Paul Adamson: Looking back on our future: conflicting visions and realities of the modern American city. Afterword: Allen Cunningham - The Modern City Revisited - Envoi.
The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.
The second in a series of titles published to address issues relating to the conservation of the Modern Movement, this is a key publication for architects, planners and all those with a specific interest in modernism and modern planning.
