Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities

Herausgeber: Gordon, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. For anyone with an interest in urban planning and design, architectural, planning and urban history, urban geography, or simply capital cities and why they are what they are, this book will be the key source book for a long time to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415557344
• ISBN-10: 0415557348
• Artikelnr.: 27369200

Autorenporträt

David Gordon is Professor and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University, Canada. He is the author of Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront and numerous articles on plan implementation and Ottawa planning history. As a practitioner, Dr. Gordon shared the Canadian Institute of Planners National Award of Distinction in 1991 and 1992.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Capital Cities in the Twentieth Century 2. Seven Types of Capital City
3. The Urban Design of Twentieth Century Capitals 4. Paris: From the Legacy
of Haussmann to the Pursuit of Cultural Supremacy 5. Moscow and St
Petersburg: A Tale of Two Capitals 6. Helsinki: From Provincial to National
Centre 7. London: The Contradictory Capital 8. Tokyo: Forged by Market
Forces and Not the Power of Planning 9. Washington: The DC's History of
Unresolved Planning Conflicts 10. Canberra: Where Landscape is Pre-Eminent
11. Ottawa-Hull: Lumber Town to National Capital 12. Brasília: A Capital in
the Hinterland 13. New Delhi: Imperial Capital to Capital of the World's
Largest Democracy 14. Berlin: Capital under Changing Political Regimes 15.
Rome: Where Great Events not Regular Planning Bring Development 16.
Chandigarh: India's Modernist Experiment 17. Brussels: Capital of Belgium
and 'Capital of Europe' 18. New York City: Super-Capital - Not by
Government Alone 19. What is the Future of Capital Cities?