Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city /

"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 nineteent...

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Other Authors: Hermansen Cordua, Christian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2010.
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Table of 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.