Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

Herausgeber: Sies, Mary Corbin; Freestone, Robert; Gournay, Isabelle

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Produktbeschreibung

This resource shows how the resilience of iconic planned communities, from New Lanark to Seaside, depends upon diverse approaches to sustaining their visionary spirit and features while adapting them to the needs of later generations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251142
• ISBN-10: 0812251148
• Artikelnr.: 54383875

Autorenporträt

Mary Corbin Sies is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Isabelle Gournay is Associate Professor of Architecture Emerita at the University of Maryland. Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning at the University of New South Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Toward Critical Resilience in Iconic Planned Communities
—Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone
Chapter 1. New Lanark: Sustaining Robert Owen's Legacy in Scotland
—John Minnery
Chapter 2. Riverside: The First Comprehensively Designed Suburban Community
in the United States
—David Schuyler
Chapter 3. English Garden Cities: Challenges of Conservation and Change
—Mervyn Miller
Chapter 4. Uplands: A Residential Park in Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada
—Larry McCann
Chapter 5. Menteng: Heritage of a Planned Community in a Southeast Asian
Megacity
—Christopher Silver
Chapter 6. Colonel Light Gardens: History, Heritage, and the Enduring
Garden Suburb in Adelaide, South Australia
—Christine Garnaut and Robert Freestone
Chapter 7. Den-en Ch¿fu: The First Japanese "Garden City"
—André Sorensen and Shun-ichi J. Watanabe
Chapter 8. The Jardim América and Pacaembu Garden Suburbs: Facing the
Changes to the Metropolis of São Paulo
—Maria Cristina da Silva Leme and Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade
Chapter 9. Garbatella: Heritage, Gentrification, and Public Policies in
Rome, Italy
—Sandra Annunziata
Chapter 10. Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn: The Common Legacy and Divergent
Experiences of Community Life
—John J. Pittari Jr.
Chapter 11. Cité Frugès: Le Corbusier's Paradoxical Appropriation in
Pessac, France
—Gilles Ragot
Chapter 12. The Römerstadt Settlement: The "New Life" in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
—Susan R. Henderson
Chapter 13. Soweto: Planning for Apartheid and Preserving the Garden City
Townships of Johannesburg, South Africa
—Angel David Nieves
Chapter 14. Wythenshawe: Manchester's Municipal Garden City
—James Hopkins and Michael Hebbert
Chapter 15. Sabaudia: Foundation, Growth, and Critical Memory in the Last
Italian City
—Jean-François Lejeune
Chapter 16. Greenbelt: Sustaining the New Deal Legacy
—Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay
Chapter 17. Bäovany-Partizánske: A Functionalist Company Town in Slovakia
—Alena Kubova-Gauché and Isabelle Gournay
Chapter 18. Tapiola: From Garden City to National Landscape Icon in Finland
—Arnold R. Alanen
Chapter 19. Seaside: Iconic Community of the New Urbanism
—Steven W. Hurtt
Chapter 20. Iconic Planned Communities: The Power of Visual Representations
—Isabelle Gournay
Chapter 21. Afterword: Lessons of the Iconic Planned Community
—R. Bruce Stephenson
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments