Format:
xxiv, 423 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9780367860509
Series Statement:
Routledge companions
Content:
"The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city-its built environment-evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; Empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes, and, often, in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces, including architects, planners, urban historians, urban geographers, and urban morphologists"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781003016670
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Lang, Jon T., 1938 - The Routledge companion to twentieth and early twenty-first century urban design Abingdon : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9781003016670
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ISBN 1003016677
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ISBN 9781000206258
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ISBN 1000206254
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ISBN 9781000206234
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ISBN 1000206238
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ISBN 9781000206241
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ISBN 1000206246
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Stadtplanung
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Geschichte 1900-
