Urban design in the 20th century : a history

Urban design in the 20th century : a history /

Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity has reached unprecedented levels of complexity. This boom in urbanization, today evident around the globe, began in earnest around the turn of the twentieth century, wh...

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Main Authors: Avermaete, Tom (Author), Gosseye, Janina (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Zurich, Switzerland : gta Verlag : ETH Zurich, [2021]
Subjects:
City planning > History > 20th century.
City planning > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Table of Contents:
  • Urban design in the twentieth century : histories and pedigrees of a cross-cultural field
  • Defining urban design
  • Histories of practice and the practice of history
  • Nineteenth-century pedigrees : of progressists, culturalists, and naturalists
  • Urban design as a cross-cultural field
  • Chapter overview
  • 1. Housing and the industrial city
  • [1A]. Speculative housing for workers
  • The pragmatic housing of Mumbai's chawls
  • Housing the working classes in New York City's tenements
  • The new urban types of the Mietskaserne in Berlin and the Blockrand in Zurich
  • [1B]. Visionary towns for companies and industry
  • Port Sunlight, a green company town
  • Tony Garnier's Cité Industrielle
  • [1C]. Cooperatives take control
  • Groß-Zürich and its housing cooperatives
  • Brussels's garden cities
  • [1D]. The state model
  • [1E]. The continuous quest for workers' housing
  • 2. Cities and ideologies
  • [2A]. Ideologies of housing
  • Befreites Wohnen
  • Balancing individuality and collectivity in housing estates
  • Soviet housing for a Noyvi Byt
  • [2B]. Cities as forms of power
  • A new Berlin for a new Reich
  • Moscow's monuments to bureaucracy
  • Underground palaces for the people
  • [2C]. The vicissitudes of state and ideology
  • 3. Envisioning urban utopias
  • [3A]. Le Corbusier's ideal of an open city
  • The Maison Dom-Ino as primordial urban element
  • Reassembling individual and collective dwelling values in the Immeuble Villa
  • - The Ville Contemporaine and the principles of modern urbanism
  • Functionalist and socialist ideas in the Ville Radieuse
  • Engaging with colonialism in Plan Obus
  • [3B]. Hilberseimer's vertical metropolis
  • [3C]. Frank Lloyd Wright's urbanity without a city
  • [3D]. Utopia's afterlife
  • 4. Reconstructing the city, constructing new towns
  • [4A]. Reconstructing the city
  • Hiroshima's empty heart
  • New centralities in the war-torn Dutch city
  • Reconstruction as a collective materials oeuvre
  • [4B]. The mid-century new town movement
  • New towns for new industries
  • New towsn for regional development
  • A new generation of new towns
  • [4C]. Life and legacy of new urban plans
  • 5. New capitals for new democracies, new institutions for old democracies
  • [5A]. New capitals for new democracies
  • Fort-Lamy beyond urban apartheid
  • Chandigarh and Islamabad as post-colonial capitals
  • Monumentality and the new urban landscape of Brasilia
  • [5B]. New institutions for old democracies
  • State building for mass culture and mass education
  • Private actors constructing commercial collectivity
  • City construction by civic society
  • [5C]. The prospects and perils of technocratic urban design
  • 6. Rethinking master planning
  • Revised typologies for the city
  • Towards a configurative urban discipline
  • The public space of stem and web
  • Agency in housing : between supports and infill
  • Systems thinking through patterns and clusters
  • Thinking the city as metabolism
  • Megastructures between incrementality and participation
  • The rise and fall of human-centered and process-driven urban design approaches
  • 7. Countercultural experiments with urbanity
  • [7A]. Freedom and self-determination
  • The nomadism and collective grounds of New Babylon
  • Accommodating citizen agency in the Ville Spatiale
  • Architecture as a poetic act in Ciudad Abierta
  • Walter Segal's recipe fort self-builders
  • [7B]. Towards urban ecology
  • Light forms of dwelling in Drop City
  • [7]. Building the arcological city
  • Ecoscores at the Sea Ranch
  • [7C]. Embracing consumer culture and technology
  • Urbanity as event in the instant city
  • A continuous monument for global urbanization
  • Homogeneity and technology in the no-stop city
  • [d]. The critical role of countercultural experiments
  • 8. Finding meaning in the postmodern city
  • [8A]. Architecture and territory
  • [8B]. History and typology
  • The life and history of the urban tissue
  • Collective memory and urban artefacts
  • The Grossform and the city
  • The reconstruction of the European city
  • Old urban codes for a new urbanism
  • [8C]. Learning from popular culture
  • [8D]. From Manhattnism to interior urbanism
  • [8E]. College City and patchwork urbanity
  • [8F]. Whose history? Whose context? Whose popular culture?
  • 9. Open-ended strategies for imploding cities
  • Urban design as Project Urbain
  • Infrastructural urbanism
  • Landscape urbanism
  • Weak urbanism for a liquid modernity
  • Beyond process and project
  • [10]. Code
  • [10A]. Untold histories
  • A global history?
  • History or his story?
  • Histoire des Idées or Histoire Réalisée?
  • The making of a profession?
  • [10B]. Traversal themes
  • Urban design and the organization of urban functions
  • Urban design and housing
  • Urban design and infrastructure, transport, and circulation
  • Urban design and craft versus industrial production
  • Urban design and nature and ecology
  • Urban design's actors and agencies
  • Index.

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