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Modern City Revisited

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The supposed rationality of 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 envinronments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Triennale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957.In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universal 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.
Release date NZ
August 31st, 2000
Audience
  • Technical / Manuals
Contributor
  • Edited by Thomas Deckker
Pages
272
Dimensions
156x234x15
ISBN-13
9780419256403
Product ID
1669029

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