Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Subtitle: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781409417781
Subjects: City planning, study and teaching (higher); City planning, history; Great britain, biography
Description: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, a British town planner, editor, and educator who was at the center of the group of people who shaped the postwar Modern Movement played a central role in Twentieth Century design history and yet her contributions to planning and urban design education and practice, mapping, CIAM discourse are largely unacknowledged. This intellectual biography not only details these landmark contributions, working alongside Geddes, Sert, Giedion and Doxiadis, but also indicates their relevance for contemporary scholars and practitioners, particularly those concerned with 'healthy' community.