Man-Made Future (eBook, PDF)

Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain
Redaktion: Whyte, Iain Boyd

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays investigating post-1945 city planning in Britain from a visual, emotional and aesthetic viewpoint rather than the purely technical, describing the emergence of a new post-war society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134325191
• Artikelnr.: 42640987

Autorenporträt

Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a Getty Scholar and, more recently, a Senior Program Officer at the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has served as a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1947 And All That 2. Otto Neurath and the Sociology of Happiness 3.
Surveying and Comprehensive Planning 4. Everywhere At Any Time 5.
Perceptions in the Conception of the Modernist Urban Environment 6. Selling
the Future City 7. Paper Dream City/Modern Monument 8. Conceptions and
Perceptions of Urban Futures in Early Post-war Britain 9. 'Into the World
of Conscious Expression' 10. Plan 11. 'Destroy all humans!' 12. The English
University of the 1960s 13. The Tall Barracks Artistically Reconsidered