Defining urban design
Subtitle: CIAM architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-69
By: Eric Mumford.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780300138887
Subjects: Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: The members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Josep Lluis Sert, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and their American associates, developed the discipline now called "urban design," which has had a significant influence on both university departments and building projects around the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prewar CIAM vision of the functional city; title: CIAM and American urbanism, 1937-48; title: Toward urban design, 1947-54; title: Urban design at Harvard, 1953-60; title: Continuity and crisis: the Harvard urban design program in transformation, 1960-69.