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Visions of the City : Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Urbanism by Pinder, David John is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Visions of the City : Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Urbanism about?
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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pinder, David John
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415953108
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science