Urban design in the 20th century : a history / Tom Avermaete, Janina Gosseye.

Main entry:

Avermaete, Tom, author.

Title & Author:

Urban design in the 20th century : a history / Tom Avermaete, Janina Gosseye.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : gta Verlag : ETH Zurich, [2021]
©2021

Description:

440 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban design in the twentieth century: histories and pedigrees of a cross-cultural field -- Housing and the industrial city -- Cities and ideologies -- Envisioning urban utopias -- Reconstructing the city, constructing new towns -- New capitals for new democracies, new institutions for old democracies -- Rethinking master planning -- Countercultural experiments with urbanity -- Finding meaning in the postmodern city -- Open-ended strategies for imploding cities -- Coda.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material

Summary:

"Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity has reached unprecedented levels of complexity. This boom in urbanization, today evident around the globe, began in earnest around the turn of the twentieth century, when technological advancement and the extraction of seemingly endless supplies of natural resources dovetailed to propel urban development. As urban populations steadily increased, architects and planners were not only faced with designing housing and public space but also with responding to emerging societal challenges such as (geo)political tensions, reconstruction after two world wars, decolonization, economic crises, growing climatic concerns, and cultural shifts. Through the analysis of more than one hundred richly illustrated urban design projects and initiatives, this book provides the first comprehensive history of how these challenges have continuously propelled new attitudes and approaches in the discipline of urban design since the early 1900s"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783856764180 (paperback)
3856764186 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
City planning
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gosseye, Janina, author.

Urban design in the twentieth century : a history

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Location: Library main 315347
Call No.: 315347
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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