Jon Lang

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design

A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Companions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 944g
• ISBN-13: 9780367860509
• ISBN-10: 0367860503
• Artikelnr.: 60012191

Autorenporträt

Jon Lang, Emeritus Professor, is the principal of his own consulting firm and formerly the director of urban design for ERG in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His consultancy work has taken him to all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. Born in India, he was educated in that country, England, South Africa, and the United States. He received his architectural degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and city planning from Cornell, where he also obtained his doctorate. Before settling in Australia in 1990, he headed the joint MArch/MCP Program in Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. At the University of New South Wales, he headed the School of Architecture and was the associate dean for research in the Faculty of the Built Environment in the 1990s and early 2000s. He has served as a visiting professor at universities in North and South America and Asia and has authored books on architectural theory, on urban design, and on modern architecture in India. His writings on urban design include Urban Design: The American Experience (1994), Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products (2005; 2017), and, with Nancy Marshall, Urban Squares as Places, Links, and Displays (Routledge 2016). His book with Walter Moleski, Functionalism Revisited (2010), provides the intellectual basis for this endeavor. He has been a juror on several international urban design competitions. In 2010, he received the Reed and Malik Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Nature of Urban Design
Part One: Antecedents of Twentieth Century Urban Design
Chapter 1. Religious Canons and Prescriptions
Chapter 2. The Classical and Beaux Arts Tradition
Chapter 3. Social and Philanthropic Urban Design
Chapter 4. The Garden Suburb
Chapter 5. The Urbanist Tradition
Part Two: Early Twentieth Century Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Concepts,
and Specific Designs
Chapter 6. The City Beautiful
Chapter 7. Modern Empiricism
Chapter 8. The Rationalist Response
Part Three: Post-World War Two Pragmatic Urban Design and The Rationalist
and Empiricist Responses
Chapter 9. The Post-World War Two Rationalists
Chapter 10. The Post-World War Two Empiricists
Chapter 11. The Postmodernist and The Deconstructivist Response
Part Four: Urban Design in an Age of Corporate Financial Capital
Chapter 12. Modernist, Neo-Modernist, and Hyper-Modernist Urban Design
Chapter 13. Hyper-Modernism, Parametricism, and Urban Design
Chapter 14. The Empiricist Responses
Chapter 15, Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Design
Chapter 16. Smart Cities and Urban Design
Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward
Chapter 17. A Critique of Twenty and Early Twenty-First Century Urban
Design
Chapter 18. The Way Forward: Toward Compact Cities