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Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880

Peter Geoffrey Hall

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This book provides an intellectual history of urban planning and design, tracing key movements and ideas from 1880 to 2010 across major global cities.

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  • Traces the intellectual history of urban planning and design from 1880 to 2010.
  • Covers major urban planning movements and their global manifestations.
  • Examines specific urban concepts like the Garden City, Radiant City, and infocities.
  • Analyzes reactions to urban problems such as slums and the impact of mass transit and automobiles.

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List of Figures ix Preface to the Fourth Edition xii Preface to the Third Edition xiii Preface to the First Edition xv 1 Cities of Imagination 1 Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880 1987 2 The City of Dreadful Night 12 Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880 1900 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49 The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900 1940 4 The City in the Garden 90 The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900 1940 5 The City in the Region 149 The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900 1940 6 The City of Monuments 202 The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900 1945 7 The City of Towers 237 The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St Louis, 1920 1970 8 The City of Sweat Equity 291 The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890 1987 9 The City on the Highway 325 The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930 1987 10 The City of Theory 385 Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955 1987 11 The City of Enterprise 414 Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975 2000 12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque 443 Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990 2010 13 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485 The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920 2011 Bibliography 529 Index 608

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Field: Urban Studies

Urban StudiesSocial Sciences