Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities

Informationen zum Autor David Gordon is Associate Professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront and numerous articles on plan implementation and Ottawa planning history. As a practitioner, Dr. Gordon shared the Canadian Institute of Planners National Award of Distinction in 1991 and 1992. Zusammenfassung This book examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world, each with its own fully illustrated chapter written by an expert on the urban development of that city Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Capital Cities in the Twentieth Century 2. Seven Types of Capital City 3. The Urban Design of Twentieth Century Capitals 4. Paris: From the Legacy of Haussmann to the Pursuit of Cultural Supremacy 5. Moscow and St Petersburg: A Tale of Two Capitals 6. Helsinki: From Provincial to National Centre 7. London: The Contradictory Capital 8. Tokyo: Forged by Market Forces and Not the Power of Planning 9. Washington: The DC's History of Unresolved Planning Conflicts 10. Canberra: Where Landscape is Pre-Eminent 11. Ottawa-Hull: Lumber Town to National Capital 12. Brasília: A Capital in the Hinterland 13. New Delhi: Imperial Capital to Capital of the World's Largest Democracy 14. Berlin: Capital under Changing Political Regimes 15. Rome: Where Great Events not Regular Planning Bring Development 16. Chandigarh: India's Modernist Experiment 17. Brussels: Capital of Belgium and 'Capital of Europe' 18. New York City: Super-Capital – Not by Government Alone 19. What is the Future of Capital Cities?

Product details

• Authors: David Gordon, David (Queen''''s University Gordon, Gordon David
• Assisted by: David Gordon (Editor), David (Queen's University Gordon (Editor), David L. A. Gordon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2006
• EAN: 9780415280617
• ISBN: 978-0-415-28061-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Planning, History and Environment Series; Planning, History and Environment Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy