Christian Hermansen Cordua

Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780754679493
• ISBN-10: 0754679497
• Artikelnr.: 35024286

Autorenporträt

Christian Hermansen Cordua is Professor and Head of the Institute of Architecture, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

Inhaltsangabe

1: Prologue
1: Introduction: The Context
2: Utopian Urbanism
3: News from Nowhere
4: The Word on the Street
2: Manifestoes: Urban Visions
5: The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización
6: Exporting the German Model
7: Camillo Sitte
8: Mr Howard and the Garden City
9: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution
3: Transformations: Urban Praxis
10: Making London's Modernity
11: Paris Space
12: The Eixample (Ensanche) 1 of Barcelona (1859 and After)
13: The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse 1
14: Berlin 1900
15: Urban Planning as Representation
16: Epilogue