Timing the Future Metropolis (eBook)

Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism

Peter Ekman (Autor)

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2024
384 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7840-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Timing the Future Metropolis-an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science-explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "e;crisis"e; and "e;renewal,"e; that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. Through its sprawling programs of "e;organized research,"e; its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela-Ciudad Guayana-the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come-and the consequences of deciding not to.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7840-4 / 1501778404
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7840-7 / 9781501778407