Main entry:

Shoshkes, Ellen.

Title & Author:

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt : a transnational life in urban planning and design / Ellen Shoshkes, Portland State University, USA.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

Description:

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Foundations -- 2.New Landscape, New Society -- 3.Studying Regional and Town Planning -- 4.Serving on the Land -- 5.Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction -- 6.Composite Mind: Planning for Post-war Reconstruction -- 7.Training Planners for Post-war Reconstruction -- 8.Trans-Atlantic Shift -- 9.Geddes as a Guide -- 10.Trans-Atlantic Post-war Planning -- 11.Planning for Real and Ideal Cities -- 12.The Core of the Community -- 13.Inter-relations: Communications, Culture, and Urbanism -- 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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781409417781 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1409417786 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebk - PDF)
9781409417798
(ebk - ePUB)
9781409473749
1409417794 (PDF ebook)
9781409417798 (PDF ebook)
1409473740 (ePub ebook)
9781409473749 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Tyrwhitt, Jaqueline.
City planners Great Britain Biography.
Women city planners Great Britain Biography.
City planning Great Britain History 20th century.
City planning History 20th century.
Urbanistes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Femmes urbanistes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Biography.
City planners.
City planning.
Women city planners.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Design and the built environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283404
Call No.: BIB 221560
Status: Available