Garden City - Past, Present and Future

Zusatztext 'Stephen Ward is to be congratulated in assembling an intellectually challenging series of contributions...essential reading for all who care about the challenge of quality in community planning.' - The Architectural Review Informationen zum Autor Ward, Stephen Klappentext This examination of a phenomenon of 19th-century planning traces the origins! implementation! international transference and adoption of the garden city idea. It also considers its continuing relevance in the late 20th century and into the 21st century. Zusammenfassung This examination of a phenomenon of nineteenth century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference and adoption of the Garden City idea. It also considers its continuing relevance in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis The garden city introduced - Stephen V Ward . English origins - Frederick H A Aalen . The French garden city - Jean Pierre Gaudin . The Japanese garden city - Shun-ichi Watanabe . The Nazi garden city - Gerhard Fehl . The Australian garden city - Robert Freestone . The American garden city: lost ideals - Daniel Schaffer . The American garden city: still relevant? - Robert Fishman . The British garden city: metamorphosis - Michael Hebbert . The garden city campaign: an overview - Dennis Hardy . Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Ward, Stephen (Bath Spa University Ward, Stephen (Oxford Brookes University Ward, Ward Stephen
• Assisted by: Stephen Ward (Editor), Ward Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2011
• EAN: 9780415511902
• ISBN: 978-0-415-51190-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects