Utopia And The Reality Of Urbanism In The 20th Century
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Utopia And The Reality Of Urbanism In The 20th Century
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Author : Kornelia Imesch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-05
Utopia And The Reality Of Urbanism In The 20th Century written by Kornelia Imesch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with City planning categories.
Dans les questions de culture et de société, l'urbanisme est un phénomène qui met en évidence les zones de tension entre utopie et réalité. La ville, comme entité en devenir et en mouvement, cristallise les changements sociaux culturels, en les prédisant, les initiant et en y réagissant. C'est aussi en cela que l'architecture et l'aménagement urbain sont des reflets et des articulations des changements de paradigme sociaux. Partant de trois villes exemplaires, la Chaux-de-Fonds, Chandigarh et Brasilia, les contributions de cet ouvrage analysent et mettent en évidence un vaste spectre de problématiques, phénomènes ou médias de représentation et d'interprétation liés aux trois exemples urbains mentionnés d'une part, à la ville contemporaine et à l'urbanisme en général d'autre part.
Visions Of The City
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Author : David Pinder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Visions Of The City written by David Pinder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Visions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests, desires and anxieties that lay behind their ideal cities. He also investigates avant-garde perspectives from the time that challenged these conceptions of cities, especially from within surrealism. At the heart of this richly illustrated book is an encounter with the explosive ideas of the situationists. Tracing the subversive practices of this avant-garde group and its associates from their explorations of Paris during the 1950s to their alternative visions based on nomadic life and play, David Pinder convincingly explains the significance of their revolutionary attempts to transform urban spaces and everyday life. He addresses in particular Constant's New Babylon, finding within his proposals a still powerful provocation to imagine cities otherwise. The book not only recovers vital moments from past hopes and dreams of modern urbanism. It also contests current claims about the 'end of utopia', arguing that reconsidering earlier projects can play a critical role in developing utopian perspectives today. Through the study of utopian visions, it aims to rekindle elements of utopianism itself. A superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School
The Story Of Utopias
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Story Of Utopias written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Brasilia
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Author : Adonai Rocha
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-03-06
Brasilia written by Adonai Rocha and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-06 with Architecture categories.
Brasília - the modernist utopia A photographic essay by Adonai Rocha Brasília seems the ultimate modernist fantasy: pristine, elegant, refined , and a remarkable demonstration of lucidity. These shots seem to offer a sumptuousness to that vision. The light, color and panorama provide an exoticism. The modernist utopia of a socially ambitious beauty comes unhinged, when we see in the shadow of the great civic buildings, children living amongst the trees. That this cultivated treat of Brasília arises or was created ex-nihilo (or out of nothing) suggests to me a certain view that the natural process of growth, in all its human messiness, is somehow corrupt. The experience of the GigaPan in viewing these images provides remarkable intimacy. At the same time I seem a voyeur. And I feel strongly compelled to experience it firsthand. Maura Doern Danko, Painter, Faculty Humanities / General Education Department The Art Institute of Pittsburgh History Inaugurated in 1960, Brasilia - the capital city of Brazil is a masterpiece of modernist architecture. It is the only city in the world built in the 20th century to be awarded (in 1987) the status of Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Behind the construction of Brasília lay a monumental campaign to construct an entire new Capital City for Brazil. In 1956, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira is elected President and ordered the construction of Brasília, fulfilling an article of the country's constitution dating back to 1891 stating that the capital should be moved from Rio de Janeiro to a place close to the center of the country. Kubitschek invites a young architect, Oscar Niemeyer, to command the project. In the same year, the work on site starts.
Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Practicing Utopia
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Author : Rosemary Wakeman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Practicing Utopia written by Rosemary Wakeman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with History categories.
The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New City—but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the twentieth century. In Practicing Utopia, Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon. From Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California, Wakeman unspools a masterly account of the golden age of new towns, exploring their utopian qualities and investigating what these towns can tell us about contemporary modernization and urban planning. She presents the new town movement as something truly global, defying a Cold War East-West dichotomy or the north-south polarization of rich and poor countries. Wherever these new towns were located, whatever their size, whether famous or forgotten, they shared a utopian lineage and conception that, in each case, reveals how residents and planners imagined their ideal urban future.
Transdisciplinary Urbanism And Culture
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Author : Quazi Mahtab Zaman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-07
Transdisciplinary Urbanism And Culture written by Quazi Mahtab Zaman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-07 with Science categories.
This book presents a collection of critical, multi-disciplinary essays on urban research by established and early career researchers who participated in the 9th Annual AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) Research Student Symposium. The symposium was held at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen from Saturday 19th May to Sunday 20th May 2012. The authors highlight contemporary research issues in urban development in search of new and fresh approaches that reflect the changing principles and praxis of urban conditions. The common ambition is to create new lines of knowledge in urban research. Due to socio-economic, political and technological changes to urban production and patterns of consumption, and a drive for inter-, cross-, multi- and transdisciplinary practice, the essays also reflect the ideological shift currently underway in academic faculties and external research organisations.
Mega Urbanization In The Global South
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Author : Ayona Datta
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-03
Mega Urbanization In The Global South written by Ayona Datta and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Science categories.
The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say. Mega-urbanization is an opportunity for economic growth and prosperity. Therefore we must build big, build new and build fast. With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real-world examples, Mega-Urbanization in the Global South is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial ‘urban revolution’. From the mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the production of satellite cities in Jakarta, to new cities built from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and Rajarhat, this book argues that speed is now the persistent feature of a range of utopian visions that seek to expedite the production of new cities. These ‘fast cities’ are the enduring images of postcolonial urbanism, which bypass actually existing urbanisms through new power-knowledge coalitions of producing, knowing and governing the city. The book explores three main themes. Part I examines fast cities as new urban utopias which propagate the illusion that they are ‘quick fix’ sustainable solutions to insulate us from future crises. Part II discusses the role of the entrepreneurial state that despite its neoliberalisation is playing a key role in shaping mega-urbanization through laws, policies and brute force. Part III finally delves into how fast cities built by entrepreneurial states actually materialise at the scale of regional urbanization rather than as metropolitan growth. This book explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between state sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It concludes with a vision and manifesto for ‘slow’ and decelerated urbanism. This timely and original book presents urban scholars with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of city-making bring to the fore.
Bras Lia Gigapan Photo Essay
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Author : Don Rocha
language : en
Publisher: Circulus LLC
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Bras Lia Gigapan Photo Essay written by Don Rocha and has been published by Circulus LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Architecture categories.
Brasília Gigapan Photo Essay Brasília the modernist utopia This eBook brings hundreds of pictures of Brasília's most iconic modernist architecture and art, along with a brief info of each monument, piece or building. Don Rocha shot Brasília using Gigapan panoramic equipment which is based on the same technology employed by the Mars Rovers. Gigapan robotic mounts take hundreds photos, which are later combined using a stitching software to create a single highly detailed image. We can then select parts of this photo to zoom in on, and zoom in. Then zoom in some more. There's no part of the photo we can't see in ridiculous detail. Inaugurated in 1960, Brasilia – the capital city of Brazil is a masterpiece of modernist architecture. It is the only city in the world built in the 20th century to be awarded (in 1987) the status of Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. The city was planned and developed with Lúcio Costa as the principal urban planner and Oscar Niemeyer as the principal architect. Lúcio Costa planned the streets in such a way that even traffic lights would not be necessary: cars and buses would take thoroughfares to travel long distances, then would use one of several loops to gain access to local streets to reach specific destinations. Much of the original planning has been affected, mostly because of the growth of Brasília and many other factors. Planned for only 500,000 inhabitants, Brasília has seen its population grow much more than expected. It has now a population of about 3 million making it the third largest city in Brazil. “Brasília seems the ultimate modernist fantasy: pristine, elegant, refined , and a remarkable demonstration of lucidity. Don Rocha’s shots seem to offer a sumptuousness to that vision. The light, color and panorama provide an exoticism.The modernist utopia of a socially ambitious beauty comes unhinged, when we see in the shadow of the great civic buildings, children living amongst the trees." Don Rocha's photographs offer a unique perspective on Brasília. They allow us to see the city in a way that we would not be able to see it otherwise. They are a testament to the beauty and power of modern architecture, and they are a reminder of the potential that Brasília has to be a great city.
Urban Utopias 20th Century
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Author : Robert Fishman
language : en
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Release Date : 1977-12-08
Urban Utopias 20th Century written by Robert Fishman and has been published by New York : Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-12-08 with Cities and towns categories.
"In Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century ... three plans are presented in depth. Working from hitherto unpublished layouts, sketches, manuscripts, and letters, the author has reconstructed the fascinating historical context out of which the plans emerged ... Fishman shows the utopian origins of all three plans, the social innovations that the architects hoped to achieve, and their heroic but vain attempts to impose a 'perfect' design on an imperfect world"--Dustjacket.