The Future of Cities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Blowers, Andrew; Sarre, Philip; Hamnett, Chris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it. The readings have been selected and organised to present the planning of the future city.

This book was first published in 1974.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135683887
• Artikelnr.: 41086143

Autorenporträt

Andrew Blowers, Chris Hamnett, Philip Sarre

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Philip Sarre and Andrew Blowers 1. The future city as seen in the past Introduction
Philip Sarre 1.1. Utopian traditions and the planning of cities
Martin Meyerson 1.2 Utopia
Thomas More 1.3. An academy of projects
Jonathan Swift 1.4. A contemporary city
Le Corbusier 1.5. City of the future
Frank Lloyd Wright 1.6. Social cities
Ebenezer Howard 2. Trends and constraints Introduction
Chris Hamnett 2.1. Some social trends
Peter Willmott 2.2. the future of the motor vehicle
ColinBuchanan 2.3. The impact of telecommunications on town planning
J.S. Whyte 2.4. The changing image of the city
ScottGreer 2.5. Resources and the economic framework
P.A. Stone 2.6. material resources
Richard Meier 2.7. Human needs
BarbaraWard and Rene Dubos 3. Future Urban Forms Introduction
Chris Hamnett 3.1 Megalopolis
Jean Gottomann 3.2. The urban field
John Friedmann and John Miller 3.3. homes beyond the fringe
LionelMarch 3.4. The grid as generator
Sir LeslieMartin 3.5. The pattern of the metropolis
Kevin Lynch 4. Planning the Future City Introduction
Philip Sarre 4.1. Normative planning
Paul Davidoff 4.2. Permissive planning
Melvin Webber 4.3. The nature of the plan
Milton Keynes Development Corporation 4.4. Non-plan: an experiment in freedom
Reyner Banham
Paul Barker
Peter Hall and Cedric Price 4.5. Creating a new social system
The Ecologist 4.6. Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands
Christopher Alexander 4.7. Retrospect and prospect
Lewis Mumford 5. Life in the City of the Future Introduction
Andrew Blowers 5.1. Future shock
Alvin Toffler 5.2. The end of the city
MichaelDavie 5.3. The Dumills: Londoners 2000
Colin Leicester 5.5. City
Clifford Simak 5.6. Bravenew world
Aldous Huxley 5.7. The machine stops
E.M. Forster