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Utopia Cosmopolis
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Author : Thomas Peyser
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Utopia Cosmopolis written by Thomas Peyser and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
A discussion of Henry James and other utopian writers (Charlotte Perkins, Gilman, Edward Bellamy and William Dean Howells) and how the commercial and territorial expansion of the U.S. prompted these utopians to imagine a universal culture standing at the
Towards Cosmopolis
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Author : Leonie Sandercock
language : en
Publisher: Academy Press
Release Date : 1998
Towards Cosmopolis written by Leonie Sandercock and has been published by Academy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come. Robert Beauregard The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory. It pushes theory and practice beyond its stubbornly modernist paradigms and into the new spaces opened by post-modern, post-colonial and feminist critiques. Edward Soja Sandercock draws on recent theoretical and political debates on gender, rate and sexuality as well as on grassroot struggles in the radically multiple cities of the late 20th Century to argue that planners have to find a way of building the new multicultural city, the Cosmopolis. Neil Smith A brilliant tour de force, an original critique no thinking planner should be without. Passionate yet coherently reasoned and lucidly written, the book advances a Utopian vision, deeply grounded in actual cases drawn from a wide variety of countries, to demonstrate how multicultural urban communities can achieve justice in a democratic manner. Janet Abu-Lughod From polis to metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing, which are shaping our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity. Towards Cosmopolis is illustrated with case material from around the world - which present 'a thousand tiny empowerments' of current planning practice - and with a superb range of specially commissioned images. This bold critique cuts to the heart of current debates about the future of our cities. It deserves a place on every citizen's shelf.
Visualizing Utopia
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Author : M. G. Kemperink
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Visualizing Utopia written by M. G. Kemperink and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
This volume contains the essays presented at the workshop 'Visualizing Utopia' held in May 2005, organized by Mary Kemperink and Willemien Roenhorst. The essays presented here discuss utopian thinking from 1890 until 1930. From the end of the eighteenth century, this utopian thinking developed from what can be called 'classic' utopianism into 'modern' utopianism. Utopianism unmarked by temporality made way for a tale situated in time - future time. Thus what was first regarded as merely a thought experiment gradually assumed the character of a real political programme. In their view of the new world and new people, writers, artists, architects, social reformers, cultural critics, politicians, etc., would often draw on representations already present in the culture. These could be biblical representations, such as those of the Apocalypse, Christ the Saviour and earthly paradise, or ancient myths, such as those of the Age of Gold, Arcadia, the sun-drenched world of Gnosticism and the Wagnerian mythological universe. The workshop concentrated on the following two aspects: the way in which the future Utopia and the path that would lead to its realization was given shape in the artistic field as well as in the non-artistic field, and the question to which culturally rooted concepts these representations were related. This double line of approach created the opportunity for specialized researchers from different disciplines - history, cultural history, art history, history of architecture, literary history - to discuss utopianism as it manifested itself in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Cosmopolis
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Author : Howard Mansfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Cosmopolis written by Howard Mansfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Political Science categories.
The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, and skyscraper utopians of the 1920s promised paradise on the one-hundredth floor with our airplane hangared next door. One thing was sure: the city of tomorrow would put to shame the city of yesterday. Another thing was certain, too: we would be happier, more peaceful (and productive) people. Here is Le Corbusier: "Free, man tends to geometry." And if we followed the "radiant harmony" of his geometry, the world’s cities could become "irresistible forces stimulating collective enthusiasm, collective action, and general joy and pride, and inconsequence individual happiness everywhere . . . the modern world would emerge . . . and would beam around, powerful, happy, believing." There were others who promised deliverance through their brands of architecture: the right angle, the curvilinear road in the park, the tower of glass. Each fervently preached that his was the magic geometry that, like tumblers on a lock, would open the way to the good life. Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful to the Italian Futurists, The Cité Industrielle, World’s Fair utopias, science fiction visions, and the grand plans of the Moderns. Cosmopolis is the story of the ideal city we never achieved, and the great plans that went into making-over precincts of our urban language.
Tarnished Utopia
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Author : Malcolm Jameson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-02-25
Tarnished Utopia written by Malcolm Jameson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-25 with Fiction categories.
A fast paced and fast- moving story of a man and a beautiful girl of the present, who find themselves in a strange, cruel land of the future. Transferred to a different world, ruled over by a vicious and the cruelest of dictators, he falls in love with Cynthia but finds her cold to his attentions. The man, Winchester is made a slave, racked with pain in the torture chambers of this strange and hideous land, this brave American plots a terrible death for the tyrannical dictator.
Urban Realism And The Cosmopolitan Imagination In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Tanya Agathocleous
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011
Urban Realism And The Cosmopolitan Imagination In The Nineteenth Century written by Tanya Agathocleous and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.
Urban Planning In A Changing World
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Author : Robert Freestone
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
Urban Planning In A Changing World written by Robert Freestone and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning at the end of the millennium.
Between Dystopia And Utopia
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Author : Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Between Dystopia And Utopia written by Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with City planning categories.
Utopian Audiences
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Author : Kenneth M. Roemer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 2003
Utopian Audiences written by Kenneth M. Roemer and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with American literature categories.
How do readers transform Utopia? How do they manipulate imaginary worlds to gain new perspectives of their own worlds? In order to answer these and other questions, this study employs a wide spectrum of reader-response approaches to define the nature and impact of utopian literature.
The Global Cities Reader
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Author : Neil Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
The Global Cities Reader written by Neil Brenner and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
This book contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells and Anthony King, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.
