1st Edition
Urban Regeneration After Catastrophe 7 Turning Points in the History of City Planning
List of figures and table
Chapter 1. Introduction: Navigating Chaos
1.01 Chaos
1.02 Catastrophe
1.03 The Cycle Of Catastrophe
1.04 Complexity Theory
1.05 Chaos Theory
1.06 Organized Complexity
1.07 Network Theory
Chapter 2. The Cycle of Catastrophe: Muthos Logos
2.01 Atlantis: Myth and Reality
2.02 Muthos and Logos
2.03 A Woven Web of Guesses
2.04 A Metaphysical Reality
2.05 The Telling of The Tale Of Atlantis
2.06 The City-Soul Analogy
2.07 The Catastrophe
Chapter 3. The Great Lisbon Earthquake: A Turning Point
3.01 Magnitude
3.02 Superstition and Seismology
3.03 Eyewitness Accounts
3.04 Trauma, Suffering and The Fear Of God
3.05 Turning to Enlightenment
3.06 Voltaire’s Lament for Lisbon
3.07 An Enlightened Autocrat
3.08 Religious Fear
3.09 Statutory Terror
3.10 Scandal, Banishment and Execution
3.11 Merchantilism
3.12 Legislation and The Plan for Lisbon
3.13 Manuel Da Maia’s Dissertations
3.14 Innovations from Catastrophe
3.15 Fountains, Cisterns and Wells
3.16 A Monument to Modernity
3.17 Conspiracy
Chapter 4. Purity and Disgust: The Biopolitics of Paris Moderne
4.01 The Biopolitical Catastrophe
4.02 Air, Light, Beauty and The Biopolitics Of Planning Paris
4.03 Napoleon III
4.04 Haussmann
4.05 Boulevards and Barricades
4.06 The Underground City of Sewers
4.07 Living in Parisian Apartments
4.08 Disruption
4.09 The Dangerous Classes
4.10 Economic Crises
4.11 Financial Innovation
4.12 Social Division
Chapter 5. America is Utopia
5.01 Puritans and Pilgrims
5.02 American Identity
5.03 American Transcendentalism
5.04 German Idealism
5.05 The Visionary
5.06 Transcendentalism in Architecture
5.07 Conflagration and Corruption
5.08 A Culture of Corruption
5.09 The Rise of Socialism in Chicago
5.10 The Great White City
5.11 Chicago’s Bad Reality
Chapter 6. Utopian Socialism: Howard’s Vision
6.01 Roots of Utopian Socialism
6.02 Utopiadystopia
6.03 The Rise of Socialism
6.04 Howard’s Way
6.05 Howard’s Pitch
6.06 Howard’s New Civilization
6. 07 New Towns Legislation
6.08 The Reality of New Towns
6.09 New Towns Today
6.10 Howard’s Absence of Plan
Chapter 7. Seduction and Propaganda: A Nation on Wheels
7.01 Boulevards, Avenues and Automobiles
7.02 Power and Progress
7.03 The American Love Affair
7.04 Seduction
7.05 Propaganda
7.06 The Reichsautobahn
7.07 Ike’s Grand Plan: Begins
7.08 Ike’s Grand Plan: Justification
7.09 Ike’s Grand Plan: Crash
7.10 Moses
7.11 Cross Bronx Expressway
7.12 No Way! ... Says Mrs Edelstein
Chapter 8. The Politicization of Urban Form
8.01 The People Vs. Moses
8.02 The Rise and Fall of Moses
8.03 Killing Lomex
8.04 Jane Jacobs Rises
8.05 Who Is This Crazy Dame!
8.06 Serendipity and Opportunity
8.07 Organized Complexity and The Sidewalk Ballet
8.08 Mumford Vs. Jacobs
8.09 The Quiet Catastrophe of Gentrification
8.10 Unintended Reality
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Impacts
9.01 Turning Points in The History Of City Planning
9.02 Atlantis: Plato’s Warning
9.03 Lisbon: Opportunism and Statutory Terror
9.04 Paris: Displacement as a Biopolitical Strategy
9.05 Chicago: Utopia-Dystopia
9.06 Garden Cities: A New Civilization
9.07 Cities Made for Speed
9.08 The People vs. Moses
9.09 Summation
Index
Biography
Mary Ganis is an Architect and Urban Designer. She has completed qualifications in Fine Art, Architecture and Urban Design, and has completed a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology in a study of exploratory behaviour in architecture and urban design and a PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia in urban design and planning focusing on network theory. Her research in the perception of place and network theory is published in her book, Planning Urban Places: Self-organising Places with People in Mind (2015). She has published papers in environment and behaviour journals, and in urban design and planning journals and conference proceedings. Mary Ganis’ professional experience is diverse and spans private practice, government, and academia.
