Urban visions : from planning culture to landscape urbanism /: from planning culture to landscape urbanism. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carmen Díaz Medina, Javier Monclús, editors.
• Editors: Medina, Carmen Díez; Monclús, Javier
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Editors and Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Urban Cultures and Traditions; 1 City Beautiful and 'Architectural Urbanism' (1893-1940); Abstract; City Beautiful and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; Civic Design, Civic Art, Urban Art, Urbanism; Case Studies; Chicago Plan (1909); Plan Zuid ("South Plan"). Amsterdam (1905-17); References; Further Readings; 2 Garden Cities and Garden Suburbs (1898-1930); Abstract; From the Garden City of Howard to the Garden Suburbs; Garden Suburbs and Town Planning; Welwyn Garden City, Prototype or Exception? Case StudiesHampstead Garden Suburb, London (1905-1907); Siedlung Römerstadt, Frankfurt (1927-28); References; Further Readings; 3 Social Democracy and Housing Policies (1919-1934); Abstract; Case Studies; Karl-Marx-Hof, Vienna (1926-30); Casa de Las Flores, Madrid (1930); References; Further Readings; 4 Modern Urban Planning and Modernist Urbanism (1930-1950); Abstract; The Modern Discipline of Urban Planning as a Technical Tool for Intervention and Control of Urban Growth; Town Planning, Städtebau, Urbanisme, Urbanistica, Urbanismo; CIAM and the Athens Charter The Impact of Modernist Urbanism After World War IICase Studies; Amsterdam South Extension Plan (1934); Brasilia (1957-1960); References; Further Readings; 5 Urban Planning and Ideology: Spain and Italy (1945-1960); Abstract; The 'Poblados Dirigidos' of Madrid; Roman Neorealism; Case Studies; Quartiere Tiburtino, Rome (1949-50); Entrevías Poblado, Madrid (1956); References; Further Readings; 6 Welfare Planning and New Towns (1945-1970s); Abstract; 'New Towns' : The British Model of Decentralisation and Planned Settlement; ' Forest Towns' : The Scandinavian Model of the Satellite City 'Vertical Town ' : Unité d'Habitation as a PrototypeCase Studies; Rösta Housing Area, Örebro, Sweden (1946-1951); Kingo Housing Complex, Helsingør, Denmark (1956); References; Further Readings; 7 Modernist Mass Housing in Europe: Comparative Perspectives in Western and Eastern Cities (1950s-1970s); Abstract; Modern Ideals and Criticism of Radical Modernity; Mass Housing in Western Europe: A Vulgate of CIAM Urbanism?; Mass Housing in the Socialist Bloc: Modern Ideals and Communist Cities; Obsolescence and Urbanity; Case Studies; Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam (1968-1970s) Gropiusstadt, Berlin (1962-1975)Southwest Besós Estate, Barcelona (1958-1965); Rusanovska Microraion, Kiev (1961-1974); References; Further Readings; 8 An Experiment in Freedom (1960-1975); Abstract; The Narrow Confines of Modernism; Contradictory Genealogies: USA/Europe; Contradictory Genealogies: Village/City; Contradictory Genealogies: Low Tech/High Tech; Case Studies; Byker Wall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom (1969-1982); Villaggio Matteotti, Terni, Italy (1969-1975); References; Further Readings; Other Urbanisms and Urban Projects; 9 Other Urbanisms; Abstract; Case Studies
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.1/216; Geography; City planning; Sustainable urban development; Urban renewal; Real estate development; Regional planning; Sociology, Urban; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; City planning; Real estate development; Sustainable urban development; Urban renewal; History -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- Urban; History: specific events & topics; Sociology; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Regional & area planning; Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Urban History; Urban Studies/Sociology; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319590479; 3319590472; 3319590464; 9783319590462
• Related ISBNs: 9783319590462
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2018).
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