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Book SynopsisHe considers the less visible yet pervasive impacts associated with the emergence of electronic technologies and sustainable development.
Trade ReviewAn ambitious and intelligent book... Relph takes seriously the ideals and intentions of those who have created the urban landscapes in which most of us now live. He's not written a satire. Still, the story he's telling is heavy with irony. Never in the history of human hopes have so many high-minded men and women worked so hard, and dreamed so passionately, with such dubious results. The National Post Brings together urban history, urban form, public planning history, the literature of utopianism, and the architecture of cities in an intelligent, coherent, lively, and controversial portrayal of the evolution of the physical characteristics of Anglo-American urban environments since 1880. Landscape Journal
Table of ContentsPreface to the 2016 Edition
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Looking Back at the Future: Late Twentieth-Century Landscapes in the 1890s
Chapter 3. Old Styles and New Forms in Architecture: 1880–1930
Chapter 4. The Invention of Modern Town Planning: 1890–1940
Chapter 5. Ordinary Landscapes of the First Machine Age: 1900–40
Chapter 6. Modernism and Internationalism in Architecture: 1900–40
Chapter 7. Landscapes in an Age of Illusions: 1930 to the Present
Chapter 8. Planning the Segregated City: 1945–75
Chapter 9. The Corporatisation of Cities 1945–
Chapter 10. Modernist and Late-Modernist Architecture: 1945–
Chapter 11. Post-Modernism in Planning and Architecture: 1970–
Chapter 12. Modernist Cityscapes and Post-Modernist Townscapes
Bibliography
Index
