Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city
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Titre
Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city
Sujet
, aménagement, aménagement urbain, histoire urbaine, histoire de l'urbanisme, utopie, ville modèle, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Cordua Christian Hermansen, mutation urbaine
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis.
Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. As such, it is a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city.
Contents :
Prologue - Christian Hermansen Cordua
Part 1 Introduction: The Context:
Utopian urbanism: ideals, practices and prospects - David Pinder
News from Nowhere: a utopian dream - Edward Robbins
The word on the street: Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of their time - Graeme Gilloch
Part 2 Manifestoes:
Urban Visions: The idea of modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización - Christian Hermansen Cordua
Exporting the German model: managing urban growth at the turn of the 1900s - Karl Otto Ellefsen
Camillo Sitte: City Planning According to Artistic Principles, Vienna 1889 - Ruth Hanisch
Mr Howard and the Garden City: a plain man's guide to the future - Dennis Hardy
Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: the writing and the readings of an intempestive classic - Pierre Chabard.
Part 3 Transformations:
Urban Praxis: Making London's modernity: capital, memory and nature - Dana Arnold
Paris space: what might have constituted Haussmanization - David Van Zanten
The eixample (ensanche) of Barcelona (1859 and after): theoretical and practical paradigm - Albert Serratosa
The significance and impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse - David Frisby
Berlin 1900 - Joachim Schlör
Urban planning as representation: an examination of Harald Hals' General Plan for Oslo 1929 - Jonny Aspen
Epilogue - Christian Hermansen Cordua
