Author: Charles Benjamin PurdomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Building of Satellite Towns
Author: Charles Benjamin PurdomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Building of Satellite Towns
Author: Charles Benjamin PurdomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Visionaries and Planners
Author: Stanley BuderPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned "garden cities" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the "master key" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban changes and the rise of the suburbs. In this interconnected history of the Garden City movement in the United States and Britain, Buder examines its influence, strengths and limitations. Howard's garden city, he shows, joined together two very different types of late-nineteenth-century experimental communities, creating a tension never fully resolved. One approach, utopian and radical in nature, challenged conventional values; the other, the model industrial towns of "enlightened" capitalists, reinforceed them. Buder traces this tension through planning history from the nineteenth-century world of visionaries, philanthropy, and self help into our own with its reliance on the expert, bureaucracy, and governmental policy, shedding light on the complex changes in the way we have thought in the twentieth century about community, urban design, and indeed the process of change. His final chapters examine the world-wide enthusiasm for "New Towns" between 1945-1975 and recent political and social trends which challenge many fundamental assumptions of modern planning.
The Satellite Towns of Stockholm
Author: Giorgio GentiliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
City Unseen
Author: Karen C. SetoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers’ understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes—from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan. Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book’s beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change. We see the growth of Las Vegas and Lagos, the importance of rivers to both connecting and dividing cities like Seoul and London, and the vulnerability of Fukushima and San Juan to floods from tsunami or hurricanes. The result is a compelling book that shows cities’ relationships with geography, food, and society.
Planting New Towns in Europe in the Interwar Years
Author: Helen MellerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443896519
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The key theme of the papers in this book concerns the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the interwar years. The contributions do not focus on the system of government – communist, fascist or democratic – but, rather, on what actually got built, by whom and why; and how the international communication of ideas was filtered through the prism of local concerns and culture. As such, the volume serves to tease out connections between urban form and social aspirations, and between the moral basis of social planning and how it was interpreted. Did the new towns of the interwar years actually create a planned society where visions met realities, aided by the design of new urban forms? This is one of the principal questions investigated by the contributors here in all the different political contexts of their chosen ‘new towns’.
Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region
Author: International Town Planning Conference, New York, 1925
Author: Manual of Planning Information
Author: Theodora Kimball HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Planning Information Up-to-date
Author: Theodora Kimball HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description