Urban Visions - From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects and cases does not attempt to establish universal interpretations; it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism. Compared with global interpretations of urbanism based on socioeconomic history or architectural historiography, Urban Visions. From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, aims to present the discipline couched in international contemporary debate and adopt a historic and comparative perspective. The book's contents pertain equally to other related disciplines, such as architecture, urban history, urban design,
landscape architecture and geography.

Foreword by Rafael Moneo.

List of contents

Part 1: Urban cultures and traditions.- Chapter 1. City beautiful and 'Architectural Urbanism' (1893-1940) (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 2. Garden cities and garden suburbs (1898-1930) (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 3. Social democracy and housing policies (1919-1934) (Carmen Díez Medina).- Chapter 4. Modern urban planning and modernist urbanism (1930-1950) (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 5. Urban planning and ideology: Spain and Italy (1945-1960) (Carmen Díez Medina).- Chapter 6. Welfare planning and new towns (1945-1970s) (Alejandro Dean).- Chapter 7. Modernist mass housing in Europe. Comparative perspectives in western and eastern cities (1950s-1970s) (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 8. An experiment in freedom (1970-1975) (Raimundo Bambó).- Part 2: Other urbanisms and urban projects.- Chapter 9. Other urbanisms (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 10. Urban projects and megastructures: modernist campuses (Basilio Tobías).- Chapter 11. New Paradigms and Strategic Urban Projects (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 12. Urban renewal and urban regeneration (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 13. Waterfronts and riverfronts. Recovery of urban waterfronts (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 14. Housing experimental projects in the Netherlands (Sergio García-Pérez).- Chapter 15. New housing projects in Latin European cities (Sergio García-Pérez).- Chapter 16. Citizen participation. Urban development for and by the people (Pablo de la Cal).- Part 3: New strategies and urban planning.- Chapter 17. Urban planning models and model cities (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 18. Urban transport and technological urbanism (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 19. New productive uses areas. Central business districts (CBD), business parks, technology parks and corporate cities (Andrés Fernández-Ges).- Chapter 20. Innovative uses of ICT technologies in recent urban developments and urban planning (Andrés Fernández-Ges).- Chapter 21. The rise of mixed-use urban developments and digital districts (Andrés Fernández-Ges).- Chapter 22. Urban resilience. Towards a global sustainability (Pablo de la Cal).- Chapter 23. Mapping urbanism, urban mapping (Raimundo Bambó).- Chapter 24. Urban voids and 'in-between' landscapes (Raimundo Bambó).- Part 4: Landscape urbanism.- Chapter 25. From urban planning to landscape urbanism (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 26. From park systems and green belts to green infrastructures (Javier Monclús).- Chapter 27. Landscape projects: Scale and place (Carlos Ávila).- Chapter 28. New urban landscapes (Carlos Ávila).- Chapter 29. Greenfield/Brownfield: Two sides of the same coin (Pablo de la Cal).- Chapter 30. New landscapes perspectives for planning (Miriam García).- Chapter 31. The intangible values of the landscape (Miriam García).- Chapter 32. Urban agriculture. Towards a continuous productive spaces system in the city (Pablo de la Cal).

About the author

Carmen DíezMedina, Degree in Architecture from the Madrid Polytechnic University (ETSAM UPM), 1989. Ph.D. at the Technische Universität Wien (1996). Associate Professor of Theory and Architectural History at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she is in charge of the architectural history and theory disciplines and coordinator of the Ph.D. Program "New Territories in Architecture". Director of the Department of Theory and Architectural and Urban Projects at the Polytechnic School from the CEU-San Pablo University of Madrid (2007-09). Member of several Architectural Research Projects, among them "Spaces for teaching", CEU (2012-14); "Residential urban landscapes", EINA (2010-11); "The construction of the liberal city", UPM (2008-09); "Spain in the CIAM", CEU (2007-08).Collaborating architect at Rafael Moneo in Madrid (1996-2001) and previously at Nigst, Hubmann&Vass in Vienna (1990-1996).
JavierMonclús, Degree in Architecture and Ph.D. from the Catalonia Polytechnic University (ETSAB, UPC), 1977. Full Professor of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he has been Chair of the Department of Architecture (2009-2016) and is currently Director of the Master Degree in Architecture. He was Professor of Urbanism at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona (1980-2005). Director of the research group PUPC (Urban Landscapes and Contemporary Project:). He has published widely on Planning, Urban Design and Urban Planning History. He is member of the Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives and Director of Zarch, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism.He worked as a planner (2005-2009) and head of the Expo Accompanying Plan of the Zaragoza Expo 2008 and as a consultant in Barcelona and Zaragoza.

Summary

Richly illustrated book with more than 400 historical maps and photos of cities around the world
Provides an overview of the urbanism legacy through an analysis of movements and projects that have shaped the subject in the last ten years

Presents case studies and comparative research to illustrate chapter topics

Additional text

“Rafael Moneo celebrates the book as a valuable reminder of those studies in urbanism … . Urban Visions is assembled and largely authored by the editors Carmen Díez Medina and Javier Monclús and their impressive team at the University of Zaragoza’s School of Engineering and Architecture. … Urban Visions presents us with a fascinating x-ray of the past one hundred years of city-building, and it will serve as an important reference for students and professionals across many cultures.” (Stephen J. Ramos, Planning Perspectives, October 26, 2017)

Report

"Rafael Moneo celebrates the book as a valuable reminder of those studies in urbanism ... . Urban Visions is assembled and largely authored by the editors Carmen Díez Medina and Javier Monclús and their impressive team at the University of Zaragoza's School of Engineering and Architecture. ... Urban Visions presents us with a fascinating x-ray of the past one hundred years of city-building, and it will serve as an important reference for students and professionals across many cultures." (Stephen J. Ramos, Planning Perspectives, October 26, 2017)

Product details

• Assisted by: Carme Díez Medina (Editor), Carmen Díez Medina (Editor), Monclús (Editor), Monclús (Editor), Javier Monclús (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030096373
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3009637-3
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 211 mm x 19 mm x 278 mm
• Weight: 1036 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 354 p. 285 illus., 192 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Soziologie, B, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Sociology, History: specific events & topics, Geography, Urban Planning, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, Urban History, Earth and Environmental Science, Urban Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Cities and towns—History