Society and Environment: A Historical Review - A Historical Review

Jacqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. These four key Tyrwhitt texts illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes' bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced post-war academic discourse and professional practice in urban planning and design internationally, and United Nations community development policy specifically. Tyrwhitt's contributions to The Town and Country Planning Textbook - the preface and "Society and Environment: A Historical Review" - spelt out a Geddessian (as opposed to Corbusian) line of modern planning thought, providing a scientific humanist theoretical framework for the field: an evolutionary perspective on "the inter-relation of history and environment with man's daily life." She paid particular attention to the urban core and noted the limitations of the Garden City ideal-and thus Britain's New Town strategy-and called for a more creative approach to civic design, inspired by a love for existing places, considered as a whole, in their regional setting.
In her subsequent papers "The Valley Section: Patrick Geddes's World Image," (1951), "The Core and the City," (1953) and "The Village Centre" (1957) Tyrwhitt expanded on these themes to establish a cogent and coherent alternative to Corbusian CIAM norms.

Sommario

1. Society and Environment: A Historical Review 2. The Valley Section: Patrick Geddes's World Image 3. The Core and the City 4. The Village Centre

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Tyrwhitt Jaqueline, Jaqueline Tywhitt
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9780415706599
• ISBN: 978-0-415-70659-9
• Pagine: 76
• Serie: Studies in International Plann; Studies in International Planning History; Studies in International Plann
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Regional & area planning, Regional and area planning