1st Edition
Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City
By Christian Hermansen Cordua
Copyright 2010
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis. Manifestoes and... Read more
1: Prologue; 1: Introduction: The Context; 2: Utopian Urbanism; 3: News from Nowhere; 4: The Word on the Street; 2: Manifestoes: Urban Visions; 5: The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización; 6: Exporting the German Model; 7: Camillo Sitte; 8: Mr Howard and the Garden City; 9: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution; 3: Transformations: Urban Praxis; 10: Making London's Modernity; 11: Paris Space; 12: The Eixample (Ensanche) 1 of Barcelona (1859 and After); 13: The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse 1; 14: Berlin 1900; 15: Urban Planning as Representation; 16: Epilogue
Biography
Christian Hermansen Cordua is Professor and Head of the Institute of Architecture, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
