The Garden City Utopia

Author : Robert Beevers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349190331

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The Garden City Utopia by Robert Beevers Pdf

Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument. But Howard was more than a town planner. He was first and foremost a social reformer, and his garden city was intended to be merely the first step towards a new social and industrial order based on common ownership of land. This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

Author : Robert Beevers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : City planners
ISBN : 0954211804

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The Garden City Utopia by Robert Beevers Pdf

Author : Ebenezer Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108021920

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To-morrow by Ebenezer Howard Pdf

The founder of the Garden City Association outlines his radical new approach to urban planning. First published in 1898.

Author : Kate Henderson,Katy Lock,Hugh Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000700251

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The Art of Building a Garden City by Kate Henderson,Katy Lock,Hugh Ellis Pdf

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century. Bringing together key findings from the TCPA’s campaign work, and drawing on lessons from the first garden cities, the new towns programme and other large-scale developments, it identifies what steps need to be taken in order to deliver the highest standards of design and place making today.

Author : Philip Ross
Publisher : Hawthorn Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781907359620

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21st Century Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Philip Ross Pdf

The two authors complement each other beautifully, one a visionary and gutsy politician, the other a gifted academic with a deep rooted social conscience. With the benefit of a century of post Letchworth Garden City knowledge and the lessons of two World Wars, their timely released book re-brands the Garden City from a social as well as a technical point of view. It says it's a manifesto for 21st Century Garden Cities of To-Morrow, but it could equally be a manifesto for decent human urban survival on our cherished Planet. It concentrates on the role of each citizen - his or her responsibilities and opportunities. It advocates restoring basic human values back to ordinary people, away from the `I'm doing you a favour' private pro-bono benefaction and/or cash-starved governmental institutions that seem to know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226346038

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Practicing Utopia by Rosemary Wakeman Pdf

The typical town springs up around a natural resource such as a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbour or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with 'new towns, ' which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thing but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the 20th century. Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon, from Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California.

Author : Edward Bellamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Utopias
ISBN : 1492149241

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Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy Pdf

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887. According to Erich Fromm, Looking Backward is "one of the most remarkable books ever published in America".

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Robert Fishman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1982-09-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262560232

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Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century by Robert Fishman Pdf

The utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Howard created the concept of the “garden city” where shops and cottages formed the center of a geometric pattern with farmland surrounding; Wright conceived of “Broadacre City,” the ultimate suburb, where the automobile was king; and Le Corbusier imagined “Ville Radieuse,” the city of cruciform skyscrapers set down in open parkland.

Author : Jean-François Lejeune
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984896

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Cruelty and Utopia by Jean-François Lejeune Pdf

This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities -- the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America. Buenos Aires, So Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Havana, Santiago, Rio, Tijuana, and Quito are just some of the subjects of this diverse collection. How have desires to create modern societies shaped these cities, leading to both architectural masterworks (by the likes of Luis Barragn, Juan O'Gorman, Lcio Costa, Roberto Burle Marx, Carlos Ral Villanueva, and Lina Bo Bardi) and the most shocking favelas? How have they grappled with concepts of national identity, their colonial history, and the continued demands of a globalized economy? Lavishly illustrated, Cruelty and Utopia features the work of such leading scholars as Carlos Fuentes, Edward Burian, Lauro Cavalcanti, Fernando Oayrzn, Roberto Segre, and Eduardo Subirats, along with artwork ranging from colonial paintings to stills from Chantal Akerman's film From the Other Side. Also included is a revised translation of Spanish King Philip II's influential planning treatise of 1573, the "Laws of the Indies," which did so much to define the form of the Latin American city.

Author : Annette Giesecke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015069036377

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The Epic City by Annette Giesecke Pdf

Restraining and taming Nature was fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified this ideal, which also informed the urban endeavors of Rome and was expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens, and through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature.

Author : Sir Thomas More
Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781622090617

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Utopia by Sir Thomas More Pdf

This edition includes: -Several illustrations from the original work -Extended and up to date introduction -A discussion of the structure of the book First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. Precminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015846774

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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dennis Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135832247

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From Garden Cities to New Towns by Dennis Hardy Pdf

This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy; and finally it assesses the campaing as a major factor in the emergence of modern town and planning, and as a backdrop against which to examine current issues.

Author : Alan Atkinson
Publisher : Utopian Dreams
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0648729621

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Welcome to Utopia by Alan Atkinson Pdf

Utopia City.Rebuilt from the ashes of America's most horrific terror attack and transformed into a paragon of technological advancement, this city stands as a beacon of possibility where almost anything can happen.Jericho Hansen certainly hopes so; as a gay superhero in the deep South, his ambition is to achieve lifelong recognition by joining Force Majeure, America's best-known superhero team. But to do that, he must first travel to Utopia and learn the hard way if he's got what it takes. The events that transpire when he gets there will turn his entire world upside down. He will experience love and loss, triumph and tragedy. Mysteries will be solved and fresh inquiries opened.Welcome to Utopia, where the most important lesson is that nothing is truly as it seems.