Author: Henry Roberts
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Model Houses for Families Built in Connection with the Great Exhibition of 1851 ... [etc.]
Author: Henry Roberts
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia
Author: Nathaniel Robert Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
Author: William Laxton
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Library
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752578459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752578459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Plans and suggestions for dwellings adapted to the working classes, including the model houses for families built by command of His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, K. G., in connexion with the exposition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851; and the Windsor Royal Society‛s Cottages
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...: Pe-Z. Addenda: including the titles of works added to the library during the printing of the catalogue, and those omitted from the general body of the work. Appendix: being a catalogue of the horological library bequeathed to the institution by B.L. Vulliamy
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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