1st Edition
Visions of the City Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism
By David Pinder
Copyright 2005
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Visions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Restorative utopias; 3: Modernist calls to order; 4: Dreams of cities and monsters; 5: Situationist adventures; 6: The great game to come; 7: Life will reside in poetry; 8: Partisans of possibilities
Biography
David Pinder is Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-editor of Cultural Geography in Practice (2003).
An eloquent attempt to rescue a series of episodes in the wider historical geography of utopian thought. Alex Vasudevan, University of Nottingham
