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Iconic planned communities and the challenge of change / edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, Robert Freestone.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Description
vii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
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HT169.55 .I36 2019
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Planned communities
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Conservation and restoration
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Planned communities
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History
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Planned communities
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Sies, Mary Corbin
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Gournay, Isabelle
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Freestone, Robert
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Case studies
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Series
City in the twenty-first century book series
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The city in the twenty-first century
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"In the history of planning, the design of an entire community prior to its construction is among the oldest traditions. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change explores the twenty-first-century fortunes of planned communities around the world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the editors and contributors examine what happened to planned communities after their glory days had passed and they became vulnerable to pressures of growth, change, and even decline. Beginning with Robert Owen's industrial village in Scotland and concluding with Robert Davis's neotraditional resort haven in Florida, this book documents the effort to translate optimal design into sustaining a common life that works for changing circumstances and new generations of residents. Basing their approach on historical research and practical, on-the-ground considerations, the essayists argue that preservation efforts succeed best when they build upon foundational planning principles, address landscape, architecture, and social engineering together, and respect the spirit of place. Presenting twenty-three case studies located in six continents, each contributor considers how to preserve the spirit of the community and its key design elements, and the ways in which those elements can be adapted to contemporary circumstances and changing demographics. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change espouses strategies to achieve critical resilience and emphasizes the vital connection between heritage preservation, equitable sharing of the benefits of living in these carefully designed places, and sustainable development"-- Provided by publisher.
"Communities: Bat'ovany-Partizánske, Cité Frugès, Colonel Light Gardens, Den-en Chôfu, Garbatella, Greenbelt, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Jardim América, Letchworth Garden City, Menteng, New Lanark, Pacaembú, Radburn, Riverside, Römerstadt, Sabaudia, Seaside, Soweto, Sunnyside Gardens, Tapiola, The Uplands, Welwyn Garden City, Wythenshawe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Toward critical resilience in iconic planned communities
New Lanark: Substaining Robert Owen's legacy in Scotland / John Minnery
Riverside: The first comprehensively designed suburban community in the United States / David Schuyler
English garden cities: Challenges of conservation and change / Mervyn Miller
Uplands: A residential park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Larry McCann
Menteng: Heritage of a planned community in a Southeast Asian megacity / Christopher Silver
Colonel light gardens: History, heritage, and the enduring Garden Suburb in Adelaide, South Australia / Christine Garnaut and Robert Freestone
Den-EN Chofu: The first Japanese Garden city" / André Sorensen and Shun-ichi J. Watanabe
The Jardim América and Pacaembu Garden Suburbs: Facing the Changes to the Metropolis of Sao Paulo / Maria Cristina da Silva Leme and Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade
Garbatella: Heritage, genetrification, and Public policies in Rome, Italy / Sandra Annunziata
Sunnyside gardens and Radburn: The common legacy and divergent experiences of community life / John J. Pittari Jr.
Cite Fruges: Le Corbusier's paradoxical appropriation in Pessac, France / Gilles Ragot
The Romerstadt settlement: The "New Life" in Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Susan R. Henderson
Soweto: Planning for apartheid and preserving the Garden City Townships of Johannesburg, South Africa / Angel David Nieves
Wythenshawe: Manchester's Municipal Garden City / James Hopkins and Michael Hebbert
Sabaudia: Foundation growth, and critical memory in the last Italian City / Jean-François Lejeune
Greenbelt: Sustaining the new deal legacy / Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay
Batovany-Partizanske: A functionalist company town in Slovakia / Alena Kubova-Gauché and Isabelle Gournay
Tapiola: From garden city to National Landscape icon in Finland / Arnold R. Alanen
Seaside: Iconic community of the New Urbanism / Steven W. Hurtt
Iconicity in planned communities: The power of visual representations / Isabelle Gournay
Afterword: Lessons ofthe ionic planned community / R. Bruce Stephenson.
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ISBN
0812251148 (hardcover)
9780812251142 (hardcover)
LCCN
2019286655
OCLC
1056780819
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