In the Suburbs of History
Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery
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2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0788-6 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0788-6 (ISBN)
Reading modern architecture and urbanism in socialist and capitalist cities, this work challenges the twentieth-century divide between East and West in favour of a shared and contested history that plays out on the peripheries of the world’s cities.
In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development.
In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning.
From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.
In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development.
In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning.
From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces.
Steven Logan is adjunct faculty at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto.
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction: Crossing Divides
2. Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb
3. Socialist Space
4. South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings
5. Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape
6. The “Total Image”: The Making of Willowdale Modern
Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global Suburbanisms |
| Zusatzinfo | 58 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0788-7 / 1487507887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0788-6 / 9781487507886 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Hardcover (2020)
Verlag Dorling Kindersley
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