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Man-made future [electronic resource] : planning, education, and design in mid-20th century Britain / [edited by] Iain Boyd Whyte.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xiv, 255 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203003954
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)
Contents:
1947 and all that : why has the act lasted so long? / Jules Lubbock -- Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Surveying and comprehensive planning : the co-ordination of knowledge in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock / Michiel Dehaene -- Everywhere at any time : post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future / Volker M. Welter -- Perceptions in the conception of the modernist urban environment : Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt / Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe -- Selling the future city : images in UK post-war reconstructions plans / Peter Larkham -- Paper dream city/modern monument : Donald Gibson and Coventry / Louise Campbell -- Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain / Keith Lilley -- "Into the world of conscious expression" : modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association School, 1933-39 / Elizabeth Darling -- Plan: a student journal of ambition and anxiety / Clive B. Fenton -- "Destroy all humans!" / Simon Richards -- The English university of the 1960s : built community, model universe / John McKean -- The tall barracks artistically reconsidered : Hyde Park cavalry barracks and the total environment of military life / Miles Glendinning.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1947 and all that : why has the act lasted so long? / Jules Lubbock -- Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Surveying and comprehensive planning : the co-ordination of knowledge in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock / Michiel Dehaene -- Everywhere at any time : post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future / Volker M. Welter -- Perceptions in the conception of the modernist urban environment : Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt / Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe -- Selling the future city : images in UK post-war reconstructions plans / Peter Larkham -- Paper dream city/modern monument : Donald Gibson and Coventry / Louise Campbell -- Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain / Keith Lilley -- "Into the world of conscious expression" : modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association School, 1933-39 / Elizabeth Darling -- Plan: a student journal of ambition and anxiety / Clive B. Fenton -- "Destroy all humans!" / Simon Richards -- The English university of the 1960s : built community, model universe / John McKean -- The tall barracks artistically reconsidered : Hyde Park cavalry barracks and the total environment of military life / Miles Glendinning.

Also available in print edition. CRC Press (http://www.crcpress.com)

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