Format:
1 online resource (296 pages)
,
92 illustrations
ISBN:
9781134768691
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Windows upon planning history -- general introduction -- Part 2 Planning history and the windows metaphor -- legacies and current challenges -- 2 Windows through a window: a philosophical view -- 3 The Janus principle -- 4 How many histories: notes on the tradition of urban history and the reasons that force us to change -- changing windows upon the city -- 5 Changing windows on European urban planning history in the twentieth century -- 6 Examining long-range trajectories in planning history -- windows of research in Germany -- Part 3 Eye-openers and long-range perspectives -- case studies -- 7 Coventry: a model of modernist reconstruction -- 8 Kassel -- ruptures and recoveries -- 9 Transportation planning in Boston: a paradigm of progress, opposition, and reversals -- 10 Identities of the urban region: 'Copernican turnarounds'? -- 11 Discoveries behind the curtains: the 'Zero Hour' myth after the fall of the wall -- Part 4 Presentations and paradigms -- 12 Visualising the emergence of a new profession in New York, Berlin and London 1909-1910 -- 13 Urbanism and dictatorship -- overcoming tunnel vision: three exhibitions in Salazar's Lisbon: 1940, 1941 and 1952 -- 14 Heritage, community activism and urban development: a Window on the personification of planning history -- 15 Signs and symbols in planning processes (1975-1995) -- 16 The regeneration of Darling Harbour, Sydney, through three planning windows -- Part 5 Conclusions -- 17 Windows upon the perspectives of planning history -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472469564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1472469569
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472469564
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315547077
Author information:
Altrock, Uwe 1965-
