PATRICK GEDDES AND TOWN PLANNING. A CRITICAL VIEW*
Autor/es
- EAN: 9780415578677
- ISBN: 978-0-415-57867-7
- Editorial: ROUTLEDGE
- Año de la edición: 2011
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 15 X 24 cm.
- Páginas: 256
- Materias:
urbanismo
planificación, ciudad y ordenación territorial
new towns, nuevas ciudades, ciudades satélite
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Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This boook studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans. Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism, the book proposes a more vigorous historiography, exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner, this book offers a rounded, full-length analysis of Geddes' vision and its material manifestation, functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory
