03678nam a22003617a 4500 pucpr 20240207162036.0 170425t20172017gw abeo b 001 0 eng d 3869224916 9783869224916 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET HT166 S6213 2017 Sonne, Wolfgang, 1965- author. Urbanity and density in 20th-century urban design / Wolfgang Sonne ; translation, Geoffrey Steinherz. txt Berlin : DOM Publishers, 2017. 359 p. : ill. ; photo. ; col. ; maps ; plans ; 31 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc 1 Introduction 14 -- 2 Urbanity 38 -- 3 history 41 -- II. Urban Residential Blocks 1890-1940 -- 1 Berlin and Germany 54 -- 2 Vienna and central Europe 68 -- 3 Amsterdam and the Netherlands 78 -- 4 Copenhagen and Scandinavia 84 -- 5 Paris and France 88 -- 6 Milan and Southern Europe 94 -- 7 London and Great Britain 98 -- 8 New York and the USA 112 -- III. Squares and streets as a public stage 1890-1940 -- 1 “The enclosure of squares’’ in Germany, Austria and their Surroundings 120 -- 2 Squares in Scandinavia 138 -- 3 Piazze d’Italia 146 -- 4 Civic art and street architecture in Great Britain 162 -- 5 Civic center and city beautiful in the USA 176 -- IV. High-rises as Generators of public Urban space 1910-1950 -- 1 Setback Skyscrapers with plaza in the USA 187 -- 2 The Urbanization of the skyscraper: Ideas and Projects in Europe 198 -- 3 High- Rise Buildings with squares and streets in Europe 202 -- v. Conventional and traditionalist reconstruction 1940- 1960 -- 1 Germany: books 216 -- 2 Germany: cities 226 -- 3 Eastern Europe 246 -- 4 Southern Europe 250 -- 5 France 254 -- 6 Great Britain 260 -- VI. Repairing the City 1960- 2010 -- 1 Theories 271 -- 2 Historical Center Renovation and Urban conservation 278 -- 3 Built city Repair in Europe 292 -- 4 Built City Repair in North America 315 -- 5 Perspective 324 -- Footnotes and further reading 328 -- List of illustrations 350 -- Index of names 352 -- Index Of places 358 -- "In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating. In contrast this book presents projects whose goal is the ideal of a dense and urbane city. Drawing on plans, built examples and theories of dense and urban cities and city districts in the twentieth century, modern examples of urban design are analyzed and highlighted, which until now have been evaluated more as fringe phenomena. These include examples characterized by functional mixture, social openness, spatially defined public spaces, urban architecture, historical reference and a cultural understanding of the city. The book's new evaluation of modern urban design history creates opportunities for current planning by offering best-practice models, which better reflect the striving for urbanity and density."--Publisher's description. City planning United States 20th century. Architecture 54081 Architecture Europe 20th century 54081 History Architecture United States 20th century 54081 History City planning Europe 20th century 73701 City planning United States 20th century 73701 History 111420 Europe 93644 United States 293958 lcc 27 HT166 General S6213 2017 301712 301712 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2023-05-30 DOM Publisher 103.35 1 General HT166 S6213 2017 91000000072041 2025-03-26 16:18:08 2024-10-30 1 113.35 2023-05-30 27