Man-made future
Subtitle: planning, education, and design in mid-20th century Britain
By: [edited by] Iain Boyd Whyte.
Contributors: Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, OX; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Postwar reconstruction -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1947 and all that : why has the act lasted so long? / Jules Lubbock; title: Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness / Iain Boyd Whyte; title: Surveying and comprehensive planning : the co-ordination of knowledge in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock / Michiel Dehaene; title: Everywhere at any time : post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future / Volker M. Welter; title: Perceptions in the conception of the modernist urban environment : Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt / Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe; title: Selling the future city : images in UK post-war reconstructions plans / Peter Larkham; title: Paper dream city/modern monument : Donald Gibson and Coventry / Louise Campbell; title: Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain / Keith Lilley; title: "Into the world of conscious expression" : modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association School, 1933-39 / Elizabeth Darling; title: Plan: a student journal of ambition and anxiety / Clive B. Fenton; title: "Destroy all humans!" / Simon Richards; title: The English university of the 1960s : built community, model universe / John McKean; title: The tall barracks artistically reconsidered : Hyde Park cavalry barracks and the total environment of military life / Miles Glendinning.