Cities of Tomorrow
An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
2nd Edition
Published on 28. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
502 pages
978-0-631-19943-4 (ISBN)
Description
Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
105 halftones, references, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19943-4 (9780631199434)
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Peter Hall
Cities of Tomorrow
An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
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08/2002
3rd Edition
Blackwell Publishers
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Previous edition
Peter Hall
Cities of Tomorrow
An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
Book
02/1990
Blackwell Publishers
€40.43
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Content
List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Cities of Imagination. 2. The City of Dreadful Night. 3. The City of By-Pass Variegated. 4. The City in the Garden. 5. The City in the Region. 6. The City of Monuments. 7. The City of Towers. 8. The City of Sweat Equity. 9. The City on the Highway. 10. The City of Theory. 11. The City of Enterprise. 12. The City of the Permanent Underclass. 13. The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque. References. A Note on Literature Published Since 1986. Index.