Book description
Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond.
A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design
Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges and opportunities
Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade
Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond
Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the author's own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth
Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for previous editions of Cities of Tomorrow
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Figures
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 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
- A Wellsian Prophecy is Fulfilled
- Los Angeles Shows the Way28
- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Soviet Deurbanists
- “The Suburbs Are Coming!”
- Suburbia: The Great Debate
- Controlling Suburban Growth in Europe
- Squaring the Circle: Planning the European Metropolis
- The Stockholm Alternative189
- Paris: Haussmann Revisited
- The Great Freeway Revolt and After
- 10 The City of Theory
- 11 The City of Enterprise:
-
12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Époque
- The Global-Informational City: Symbolic Analysts and No-Hopers
- The Digitalization of the World
- Planning and Urban Policy: Codification versus Urban Entrepreneurship
- Thames Gateway: The last 1980s Regeneration Project?
- The Mega-Project: An Eastern Asian Art Form?
- The Campaign for Urban Quality
- Sustainable Urbanism in Practice: The United Kingdom’s Urban Task Force and After
- The Search for Sustainability
- New Models for Planning Pilgrims
- Planning Gain and Social Equity
- Growth, Equity, and Environment
- 13 The City of the Permanent Underclass
- Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781118456477
You might also like
audiobook
The Design of Everyday Things
First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came science. Now, Donald A. Norman, …
book
This Is Service Design Doing
How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book …
book
English for Everyone English Phrasal Verbs
PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need a …
book
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers …