Format:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317111283
Content:
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, a British town planner, editor, and educator who was at the center of the group of people who shaped the postwar Modern Movement played a central role in Twentieth Century design history and yet her contributions to planning and urban design education and practice, mapping, CIAM discourse are largely unacknowledged. This intellectual biography not only details these landmark contributions, working alongside Geddes, Sert, Giedion and Doxiadis, but also indicates their relevance for contemporary scholars and practitioners, particularly those concerned with 'healthy' community design and sustainability
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Part I 1905-1940 -- 1 Foundations -- 2 New Landscape, New Society -- 3 Studying Regional and Town Planning -- 4 Serving on the Land -- Part II 1941-45 -- 5 Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction -- 6 Composite Mind: Planning for Postwar Reconstruction -- 7 Training Planners for Postwar Reconstruction -- Part III 1945-49 -- 8 Trans-Atlantic Shift -- 9 Geddes as a Guide -- 10 Trans-Atlantic Post-war Planning -- Part IV 1949-56 -- 11 Planning for Real and Ideal Cities -- 12 The Core of the Community -- 13 Inter-relations: Communications, Culture, and Urbanism -- Part V 1955-72 -- 14 Urban Planning and Design Education 1955-1960 -- 15 Synthesis: Urban Design and Ekistics -- 16 Epilogue. Tyrwhitt's Utopia: A Garden on a Greek Hillside -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Shoshkes, Ellen Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: a Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9781409417781
Language:
English
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