Main entry:

Zucker, Paul, 1889-1971, editor.

Title & Author:

New architecture and city planning, a symposium, edited by Paul Zucker.

Publication:

New York, Philosophical Library [1944]

Description:

xv, 694 pages frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams 24 cm

Notes:
Bibliography at end of some of the articles.
Planning in three dimensions / P. Zucker -- Industrial architecture / L. Kahn -- Department stores and office buildings / E.J. Kahn -- Private and public administration buildings / G. Howe -- The private house / K. Reid -- School: class rooms and living rooms / R.J. Neutra -- Hospitals / L. Rich -- Reformatory and prison design / C.B. Litchfield -- Theatres, movies and places of entertainment / O. Stonorov -- World's fairs / P.L. Wiener -- Ocean liners / V. Yourkevitch -- New materials, new construction methods, new house architecture / T.S. Holden -- When science takes over the home / Robert L. Davison -- Standardization in the building industry and its influence on architectural development / P. Bradley -- Outline summary of prefabrication methods / H. Sandbank -- Structural steels and non-ferrous metals in building construction / F.H. Frankland -- Plywook / V.F. Sears -- Plastics / M. Sanders -- Glass / E. Aiken -- Rubber, Linoleum and cork / F.W. Lamb -- Electric home equipment / C.W. Stuart -- The organization of planning in the field of housing as related to city and regional planning / J. Crane & W. Haydock -- Economic changes in real estate / C. Abrams -- Multiple dwellings and their possibilities / S. Chermayeff -- Some problems of the low-cost home / R.S. Soriano -- Progressive replacement of low-cost houses / B.B. Smith -- War-housing remainders: post-war slums / H.S. Churchill -- Principles of slum clearance / W.H. Schuchardt -- Inter-racial issues in housing / L.B. Granger -- The planning of rural houses / S.P. Stewart -- The sociological basis of city planning / M.R. Davie -- The city as a work of art / G. Boas -- Civic art / C. Aronovici -- The human scale in city planning / J.L. Sert -- Highways, the framework of the city and regional plan / G.D. Kennedy -- railroads and city and regional plans / C. Rodgers -- The architecture of inland waterways / R.A. Wank -- Airports and air traffic in their influence on city and regional planning / A. Mayer -- The influence of public utilities on city and regional planning / J.A. Ely -- The need for public health planning / M.W. Barnard -- Compass and possibilities of regional planning / M.W. Torkelson -- Some political and administrative aspects of regional planning / P. Bradley -- Layout and organization of farms, their influence on regional planning / S.A. Witzel -- The interdependence of landscape architecture, city and regional planning / H.V. Hubbard -- The future development and functions of our national parks / T.C. Vint -- The need for nonumentality / S. Giedion -- Stylistic trends and the problem of monumentality / G. Nelson -- Monumentality / L.I. Kahn -- Monuments / P.L. Goodwin -- Murals and architectural sculpture / E. Fiene -- Citizens' interest and participation in city and regional planning and housing / H.S. Buttenheim -- Prewar engineers, architects and sociologists in a post-war world / E.S. Burdell -- Education of the future architect / C.L.V. Meeks -- The architectural center / L. Kocher and H. Dearstyne -- The museum of the future / W.R. Valentiner -- Industrial design / L. Moholy-Nagy -- The educational value of manual work and handicraft in relation to architecture / J. Albers.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Architects and engineers, city planners and administrators, sociologists and scientists have contributed to cover the problems of ... future development in the field of architecture, city and regional planning".--BOOKJACKET.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

083692035X
9780836920352

Subject:

Architecture.
City planning.
Housing.
City planning Congresses.
Housing Congresses.
Architecture Congrès.
Urbanisme Congrès.
Logement Congrès.
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Baugestaltung
Baustoff
Haus
Monumentalarchitektur
Stadtplanung
Architecture Congresses.
Regional planning Congresses.

Form/genre:

Kongress New York (NY) 1944.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Konferenzschrift 1944 New York, NY.
Actes de congrès.
Kongress.
New York (NY, 1944)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15768
Call No.: W13202; ID:87-B15913
Status: Available