Physical Culture and the Biopolitics of the International Garden City Movement - Planning Healthy Recreation

This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within garden city planning discourse and the development of some of the first garden city communities in the United Kingdom and United States. 

List of contents

Introduction: Biopolitics and the Physical Culture of the Garden City Model.- 1. The Significance of Physical Culture in Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Model.- 2. Town-Country Physical Culture and the Rise of Letchworth Garden City.- 3. The New Recreation: Physical Culture and the Regional Planning Association of America.- 4. Highwayless Physical Culture in the Planning of Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn.- Conclusion: Garden City Bodies for 'To-morrow'?.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel M Clevenger, Samuel M. Clevenger
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2025
• EAN: 9783031869808
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3186980-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Illustrations: VIII, 218 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Architekturtheorie, Sport, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte der Architektur, Europäische Geschichte, Westeuropa, Urban Planning, Geschichte des Sports, Urban History, built environment, History of Britain and Ireland, US History, Sport History, Architectural History and Theory, Physical Health, planning discourse