Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
[Book Description]
Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains anunrivalled account of the history of planning in theory andpractice, as well as of the social and economic problems andopportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised,the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and globalhistory of urban planning and design throughout thetwentieth-century and beyond. * A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one ofthe most notable figures in the field of urban planning anddesign * Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical historyof planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlyingsocio-economic challenges and opportunities * Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant newresearch published over the last decade * Reviews the development of the modern planning movement overthe entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond * Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves theauthor s own fascinating experiences into the text toillustrate this authoritative story of urban growth
[Table of Contents]
List of Figures ix
Preface to the Fourth Edition xii
Preface to the Third Edition xiii
Preface to the First Edition xv
1 Cities of Imagination 1 (11)
Alternative Visions of the Good City,
1880-1987
2 The City of Dreadful Night 12 (37)
Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum
City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York,
1880-1900
3 The City of By-Pass Variegated 49 (41)
The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris,
Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
4 The City in the Garden 90 (59)
The Garden-City Solution: London, Paris,
Berlin, New York, 1900-1940
5 The City in the Region 149 (53)
The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh,
New York, London, 1900-1940
6 The City of Monuments , 202 (35)
The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New
Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945
7 The City of Towers 237 (54)
The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris,
Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St Louis,
1920-1970
8 The City of Sweat Equity 291 (34)
The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore,
Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987
9 The City on the Highway 325 (60)
The Automobile Suburb: Long Island,
Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987
10 The City of Theory 385 (29)
Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia,
Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987
11 The City of Enterprise 414 (29)
Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong
Kong, London, 1975-2000
12 The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque 443 (42)
Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New
York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2010
13 The City of the Permanent Underclass 485 (44)
The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St Louis, London,
1920-2011
Bibliography 529 (79)
Index 608
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