Culture, Urbanism and Planning

Informationen zum Autor Professor Javier Monclus and Professor Manuel Guardia are both at the Valles School of Architecture! Polytechnic University of Catalonia! Barcelona! Spain. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Historial and Cultural Perspectives; 1: History Builds the Town: On the Uses of History in Twentieth-century City Planning; 2: The Cultural Dimension of Urban Planning Strategies: An Historical Perspective; 3: Speak, Culture! – Culture in Planning's Past, Present and Future; II: Images and Heritages; 4: Capital Cities and Culture: Evolution of Twentieth-century Capital City Planning; 5: The Power of Anticipation: Itinerant Images of Metropolitan Futures Buenos Aires 1900–1920 1; 6: Words and History: Controversies on Urban Heritage in Italy; 7: Urban Destruction or Preservation? Conservation Movement and Planning in Twentieth-century Scandinavian Capitals; 8: Planning the Historic City: 1960s Plans for Bath and York 1; 9: Multiple Exposures or New Cultural Values? European Historical Centres and Recent Immigration Fluxes; 10: New Urbanism and Planning History: Back to the Future; III: Cultural Urbanism and Planning Strategies; 11: Branding the City of Culture – The Death of City Planning?; 12: International Exhibitions and Planning. Hosting Large-scale Events as Place Promotion and as Catalysts of Urban Regeneration; 13: Contemporary Urban Spectacularisation; 14: Culture, Tradition and Modernity in the Latin American City. Some Recent Experiences; 15: ‘Cities Are Fun!': Inventing and Spreading the Baltimore Model of Cultural Urbanism

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Guardia, Guardia Manuel
• Assisted by: Javier Monclus (Editor), Monclus Javier (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138253575
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25357-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Regional & area planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Library & Information Sciences, Regional and area planning, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Library and information sciences / Museology