Man-Made Future - Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

Zusatztext 'The essays ... are fascinating if only because the period of certainty and decisive action that they describe is so different from town planning today.' – The Architectural Review Informationen zum Autor Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a Getty Scholar and, more recently, a Senior Program Officer at the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has served as a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays investigating post-1945 city planning in Britain from a visual, emotional and aesthetic viewpoint rather than the purely technical, describing the emergence of a new post-war society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 1947 And All That 2. Otto Neurath and the Sociology of Happiness 3. Surveying and Comprehensive Planning 4. Everywhere At Any Time 5. Perceptions in the Conception of the Modernist Urban Environment 6. Selling the Future City 7. Paper Dream City/Modern Monument 8. Conceptions and Perceptions of Urban Futures in Early Post-war Britain 9. ‘Into the World of Conscious Expression’ 10. Plan 11. ‘Destroy all humans!' 12. The English University of the 1960s 13. The Tall Barracks Artistically Reconsidered

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Iain Boyd (University of Edinburgh Whyte
• Con la collaborazione di: Iain Boyd Whyte (Editore), Whyte Iain Boyd (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.12.2006
• EAN: 9780415357883
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35788-3
• Pagine: 270
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy