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• Title:Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880 / Peter Hall.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hall, Peter, 1932-2014, author.
  
• Published/Created:Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .H349 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--History--20th century.
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:xvi, 624 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"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 "-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-607) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781118456477 (paperback)
  1118456475 (paperback)
  1118456513 (electronic bk.)
  9781118456514 (electronic bk.)
  1118456505 (electronic bk.)
  9781118456507 (electronic bk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880-1987
  Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900
  Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
  Garden-City Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
  Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940
  City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945
  Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St Louis, 1920-1970
  Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987
  Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987
  Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987
  Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-2000
  Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2010
  Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London, 1920-2011.