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Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city / edited by Christian Hermansen Cordua

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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
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1 online resource (xi, 311 pages)
Additional Creators
Hermansen Cordua, Christian
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Contents
Utopian urbanism : ideals, practices and prospects / David Pinder -- News from nowhere : a utopian dream / Edward Robbins -- The word on the street : Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of their time / Graeme Gilloch -- The idea of modernity in Cerdà's Teoría general de la urbanización / Christian Hermansen Cordua -- Exporting the German model : managing urban growth at the turn of the 1900s / Karl Otto Ellefsen -- Camillo Sitte : city planning according to artistic principles, Vienna 1889 / Ruth Hanisch -- Mr Howard and the garden city : a plain man's guide to the future / Dennis Hardy -- Patrick Geddes and Cities in evolution : the writing and the readings of an intempestive classic / Pierre Chabard -- Making London's modernity : capital, memory and nature / Dana Arnold -- Paris space : what might have constituted Haussmanization / David Van Zanten -- The eixample (ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and after) : theoretical and practical paradigm / Albert Serratosa -- The significance and impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse / David Frisby -- Berlin 1900 / Joachim Schlör -- Urban planning as representation : an examination of Harald Hals's general plan for Oslo 1929 / Jonny Aspen.
Summary
"The enormous impact of industrialisation on the 19th Century European city created unprecedentedly fertile conditions both for the generation of ideal conceptions of the city and for large scale urban transformations. Within this context, the urban discourse of the latter half of the nineteenth century was characterised by a dialectic exchange between the realms of the ideal and the practical. This dialectic was played out in the large metropolitan areas which were the sites for the formation of modernity. While there has recently been a growing interest in utopian visions, resulting in the publication of many surveys as well as monographs on specific urban utopian proposals, there have so far been no books which deal with urban utopias and their relationship between actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of leading experts, "Manifestoes and Transformations" does this. It provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city, as well as examining the relations between urban ideals and their influence on urban praxis. As such, it is a valuable source for students interested in the formation of the modernist city."--Page 4 of cover
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ISBN
9780754698876 (ebook)
0754698874 (ebook)
0754679489 (hardback)
9780754679486 (hardback)
0754679497 (pbk.)
9780754679493 (pbk.)
9781282462809 (MyiLibrary)
1282462806
9780754679486 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780754679493 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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