Modern City Revisited

Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135802491
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern City Revisited written by Thomas Deckker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.

Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135802505
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern City Revisited written by Thomas Deckker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a series of titles published to address issues relating to the conservation of the Modern Movement, this is a key publication for architects, planners and all those with a specific interest in modernism and modern planning.

Author : Leandro Medrano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000363856
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Urban Condition written by Leandro Medrano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are “post-critical,” this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism. In a series of historical and theoretical studies, this book examines how the materialities, forms, and practices of architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards the new urban condition. It proposes not only new concepts and theories but also instruments of analysis and reflection to better understand the current counter-hegemonic tendencies in both disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics. The diversely international selection of chapters, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and the Netherlands, combine different theoretical and empirical perspectives into a new analysis of the city and architecture. Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science, and more.

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452913148
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Imaginaries written by and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Donald
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816635559
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Modern City written by James Donald and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles -- these define "the city" in the world's consciousness. James Donald takes us on a psychic journey to these places that have inspired artists, writers, architects, and filmmakers for centuries. Considering the cultural and political implications of the "urban imaginary, " Donald explores the pleasures and challenges of modern living, contending that the imagined city remains the best lens for a future of democratic community. How can we think of Chicago without recalling the grittiness of The Asphalt Jungle's back alleys, or of London without the dank, foggy atmosphere so often evoked by Dickens? When de Certeau explores what it means to walk through a city, or Foucault dissects the elements of the modern attitude, what are they telling us about modernity itself? Through a discussion of these and many other questions about urban thought, Donald demonstrates how artists and social critics have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor, and injustice, but also of civilized society's highest aspirations. Imagining the modern City also looks at how artists have shaped cities through their creation of public spaces, sculpture, and architecture -- art forms that help determine our ideas about our place in the urban environment. Planners and architects such as Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, and Bernard Tschumi present us with real and possible cities, showing a way forward to alternative social futures, Donald asserts. The modern city provides both a culturally resonant imagined space and a physical place for the everyday life of its residents. Imagining the Modern City is a rich and dazzling exploration of theways cities stir and shape our consciousness.

Author : Tim Murray
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030271692
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia written by Tim Murray and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in Sydney – First Government House. The book is anchored around a detailed comparison of contents of 20 cesspits created during the 19th century, and examines patterns of similarity and dissimilarity, presenting analyses that work towards an integration of historical and archaeological data and perspectives. The book also outlines a transnational framework of comparison that assists in the larger context related to building a truly global archaeology of the modern city. This framework is directly related a multi-scalar approach to urban archaeology. Historical archaeologists have been advocating the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference. The most popular (and most basic) of these has been the household. However, it has also been acknowledged that interpreting the archaeology of households beyond the notion that every household and associated archaeological assemblage is unique requires archaeologists and historians to compare and contrast, and to establish patterns. These comparisons frequently occur at the level of the area or district in the same city, where archaeologists seek to derive patterns that might be explained as being the result of status, class, ethnicity, or ideology. Other less frequent comparisons occur at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, acknowledging that the archaeology of the modern western city is also the archaeology of modern global forces of production, consumption, trade, immigration and ideology formation. This book makes a contribution to that general literature

Author : Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665753
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City, Revisited written by Dennis R. Judd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.

Author : William Sharpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Modern City written by William Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Nas
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825860387
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indonesian Town Revisited written by P. Nas and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indonesian Town Revisited reflects the growing interest in new towns and the urban sprawl around Jakarta, the economic crisis and its effects on the construction sector. Furthermore, a new direction in research is related to the growing interest in middle range cities. Some well-established topics are also covered, such as kampung improvement, urban conservation and migration.

Author : Elizabeth Geen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975149
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and the Modern City written by Elizabeth Geen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No single view of American cities captures the many problems of urban life-whether the city is analyzed by a politician, an architect, an urban planner, a sociologist, or a psychologist. Man and the Modern City presents the view of ten distinguished urban critics whose variety of approaches places the crucial issues of the city in a broad perspective.