Postmodern urbanism txt
Nan Ellin.
- viii, 392 p. ill. ; 23 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-379) and index.
THE ROMANTIC RESURGENCE -- URBAN DESIGN THEORY ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT -- Neorationalism -- Neoclassicism -- Open Architecture -- The French Version -- Architectural Exhibitions -- URBAN DESIGN THEORY: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN AXIS -- The Townscape Movement -- Advocacy Planning, Community Participation, Environmentalism, and Feminism -- Regionalism and Vernacular Design -- Venturi and Contextualism -- Historical Eclecticism -- Historic Preservation and Gentrification -- Critical Regionalism -- Master-Planned Communities, Gated Communities, and Defensive Urbanism -- Neotraditional Urbanism, or The New Urbanism -- Edge Cities -- Postmodern Architecture vis-a-vis Urban Design -- THE POSTMODERN REFLEX -- The Challenge to Modernity and the Growth in Privatism -- The Postmodern Temper -- The Ironic Response -- The New Sensibility -- THEMES OF POSTMODERN URBANISM -- Form Follows Fiction -- Form Follows Fear -- Form Follows Finesse -- Form Follows Finance -- The Result -- On Balance -- THE MODERN PROJECT: CONTINUED OR ABANDONED? -- Supporters and Detractors -- Significance for Urban Design -- Prescriptions -- CRISIS IN THE ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSION -- Contours of the Crisis -- Manifestation of the Crisis: The Gap -- Postmodern Urbanism as Response to the Crisis -- Opportunities for the Architectural Profession -- RECONCEIVING THE CITY AND CULTURE -- Metaphors for the City and Culture -- Reconceiving the City -- Reconceiving Culture -- Studying the City and Culture -- New Metaphors: Text and Collage -- Conclusion: Beyond Irony and Artifice -- Appendix A: The Pendular Swin -- Appendix B: Timeline of Postmodern Urbanism.
156898135X pbk. : alk. paper 9781568981352
City planning--History--Themes, motives.--20th century Architecture, Postmodern Architecture and society.--History--20th century.