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Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities: Planning, History and Environment Series

Editat de David Gordon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2009
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another.
For anyone with an interest in urban planning and design, architectural, planning and urban history, urban geography, or simply capital cities and why they are what they are, this book will be the key source book for a long time to come.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415557344
ISBN-10: 0415557348
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 150
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Planning, History and Environment Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

1. Capital Cities in the Twentieth Century  2. Seven Types of Capital City  3. The Urban Design of Twentieth Century Capitals  4. Paris: From the Legacy of Haussmann to the Pursuit of Cultural Supremacy  5. Moscow and St Petersburg: A Tale of Two Capitals  6. Helsinki: From Provincial to National Centre  7. London: The Contradictory Capital  8. Tokyo: Forged by Market Forces and Not the Power of Planning  9. Washington: The DC's History of Unresolved Planning Conflicts  10. Canberra: Where Landscape is Pre-Eminent  11. Ottawa-Hull: Lumber Town to National Capital  12. Brasília: A Capital in the Hinterland  13. New Delhi: Imperial Capital to Capital of the World's Largest Democracy  14. Berlin: Capital under Changing Political Regimes  15. Rome: Where Great Events not Regular Planning Bring Development  16. Chandigarh: India's Modernist Experiment  17. Brussels: Capital of Belgium and 'Capital of Europe'  18. New York City: Super-Capital – Not by Government Alone  19. What is the Future of Capital Cities?

Notă biografică

David Gordon is Professor and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront and numerous articles on plan implementation and Ottawa planning history. As a practitioner, Dr. Gordon shared the Canadian Institute of Planners National Award of Distinction in 1991 and 1992.

Descriere

This book examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world, each with its own fully illustrated chapter written by an expert on the urban development of that city