Postmodern Urbanism: Revised Edition - Softcover

Ellin, Nan

 
9781568981352: Postmodern Urbanism: Revised Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 156898135X ISBN 13: 9781568981352
Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This text examines the issues that directly affect cities and neighbourhoods. Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners that something needs to be done to improve the physical landscape and the sense of desolation that it arouses. Efforts to do so have been grouped under the rubric "postmodern urbanism". While this late-20th century quest for meaning has elicited nostalgia for cities of the past, it has not been acommpanied by a desire to relinquish technological innovations that raise the standard of living, or the pursuit of progress and modernity.

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Críticas

Nan Ellin has written the best review of the postwar theories of urban design. Those who read Postmodern Urbanism will be enlightened; those who write afterward can only imitate." Robert A. Beauregard, New School for Social Research

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This text examines the issues that directly affect cities and neighbourhoods. Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners that something needs to be done to improve the physical landscape and the sense of desolation that it arouses. Efforts to do so have been grouped under the rubric "postmodern urbanism". While this late-20th century quest for meaning has elicited nostalgia for cities of the past, it has not been acommpanied by a desire to relinquish technological innovations that raise the standard of living, or the pursuit of progress and modernity.

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Verlag
Princeton Architectural Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
156898135X
ISBN 13 
9781568981352
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