Cities of tomorrow
Subtitle: an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880
By: Peter Hall
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781118456477
Subjects: City planning; History
Description: "Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond. A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges and opportunities Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the author's own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cities of imagination : alternative visions of the good city, 1880-1987; title: The city of dreadful night : reactions to the nineteenth-century slum city : London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900; title: The city of by-pass variegated : the mass transit suburb : London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940; title: The city in the garden : the garden-city solution : London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940; title: The city of monuments : the city beautiful movement : Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945; title: The city of towers : the Corbusian radiant city : Paris, Chandigarh, Brasília, London, St Louis, 1920-1970; title: The city of sweat equity : the autonomous community : Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987; title: The city on the highway : the automobile suburg : Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles. Paris, 1930-1987; title: The city of theory : planning and the academy : Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987; title: The city of enterprise : planning turned upside down : Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-2000; title: The city of the tarnished Belle Époque : infocities and informationless ghettos : New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2101; title: The city of the permanent underclass : the enduring slum : Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920-2011.