Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century / Peter Hall.

By: Hall, Peter, 1932-2014 [author]
Language: English Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1996Edition: Updated editionDescription: xvi, 502 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 063119942X; 0631199438 (pbk.); 9780631199434; 9780631199427Subject(s): City planning -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 307.1/20904 LOC classification: HT166 | .H349 1996
Contents:
Cities of imagination : alternative visions of the good city, 1880-1987 -- The city of dreadful night : reactions to the Nineteenth-Century slum city: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900 -- The city of the by-pass variegated : the mass transit suburb : London, Paris, New York, 1900-1940 -- The city in the garden : the gaarden city solution : London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 -- The city in the region : the birth of regional planning : Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940 -- The city of monuments : the city beautiful movement : Chicago, New York, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1940 -- The city of towers : the Corbusian radiant city: Paris, Chandigarh, Brazilia, London, St. Louis, 1920-1970 -- The city of sweat equity, the autonomous community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987 -- The city on the highway: the automobile suburb : Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1920-1987 -- The city of theory: planning and the academy : Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987 -- The city of enterprise : planning turned upside down, : Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1987 -- The city of the permanent underclass: the enduring slum : Chicago, St. Louis, London, 1920-1970 -- The city of the tarnished: Belle Epoque infinities and informationless ghettos : New York, London, Tokyo, 1895-2010.
Summary: This volume sets out to provide a critical history of planning in theory and practice throughout the world in the 20th century. This edition covers developments in the late 1980s and 1990s, and content and references have been updated throughout.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-480)

Cities of imagination : alternative visions of the good city, 1880-1987 --
The city of dreadful night : reactions to the Nineteenth-Century slum city: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900 --
The city of the by-pass variegated : the mass transit suburb : London, Paris, New York, 1900-1940 --
The city in the garden : the gaarden city solution : London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 --
The city in the region : the birth of regional planning : Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940 --
The city of monuments : the city beautiful movement : Chicago, New York, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1940 --
The city of towers : the Corbusian radiant city: Paris, Chandigarh, Brazilia, London, St. Louis, 1920-1970 --
The city of sweat equity, the autonomous community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987 --
The city on the highway: the automobile suburb : Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1920-1987 --
The city of theory: planning and the academy : Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987 --
The city of enterprise : planning turned upside down, : Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1987 --
The city of the permanent underclass: the enduring slum : Chicago, St. Louis, London, 1920-1970 --
The city of the tarnished: Belle Epoque infinities and informationless ghettos : New York, London, Tokyo, 1895-2010.

This volume sets out to provide a critical history of planning in theory and practice throughout the world in the 20th century. This edition covers developments in the late 1980s and 1990s, and content and references have been updated throughout.

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