Author: Robert Colls
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351161660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history. The question of the balance between the life of the private citizen and the need to play an active role in the wider community, is one that recurs throughout history. In this book the shifting nature of civic responsibility between 1800 and 1990 is addressed, looking at the balance of individual and collective responsibilities as well as obligation to a growing democratic state. The ten essays by leading scholars in the field of urban and social history offer fresh and important insights into governance and civil society in the modern period.
Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800000
Author: Robert Colls
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351161660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history. The question of the balance between the life of the private citizen and the need to play an active role in the wider community, is one that recurs throughout history. In this book the shifting nature of civic responsibility between 1800 and 1990 is addressed, looking at the balance of individual and collective responsibilities as well as obligation to a growing democratic state. The ten essays by leading scholars in the field of urban and social history offer fresh and important insights into governance and civil society in the modern period.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351161660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history. The question of the balance between the life of the private citizen and the need to play an active role in the wider community, is one that recurs throughout history. In this book the shifting nature of civic responsibility between 1800 and 1990 is addressed, looking at the balance of individual and collective responsibilities as well as obligation to a growing democratic state. The ten essays by leading scholars in the field of urban and social history offer fresh and important insights into governance and civil society in the modern period.
The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Neil Levine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167532
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright’s plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright’s place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright’s often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167532
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright’s plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright’s place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright’s often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Author: Brian Ladd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674931152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An integrated approach to the subject, exploring a wide variety of solutions to pest control problems, including the non-chemical. Information on chemicals and pesticide applications have been brought up-to-date and are accompanied by discussions of environmental factors and safety aspects. While the perspective is Australian, many of these pests are universal in their distribution. Some 280 illustrations (80 in color). A sound practical guide that deserves a bibliography. Describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to impose order on the tumultuous growth of the cities during the rapid industrialization in the decades before World War I. Part civic boosterism, part social reform, and heavily laced with politics, their theories and actions spawned modern urban planning. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674931152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An integrated approach to the subject, exploring a wide variety of solutions to pest control problems, including the non-chemical. Information on chemicals and pesticide applications have been brought up-to-date and are accompanied by discussions of environmental factors and safety aspects. While the perspective is Australian, many of these pests are universal in their distribution. Some 280 illustrations (80 in color). A sound practical guide that deserves a bibliography. Describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to impose order on the tumultuous growth of the cities during the rapid industrialization in the decades before World War I. Part civic boosterism, part social reform, and heavily laced with politics, their theories and actions spawned modern urban planning. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. 2d Ed., Rev. and Enl
Author: Avery Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Paul Worthington Carhart
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Art Index Retrospective
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Historical Abstracts
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.
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Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.
Report on a City Plan for the Municipalities of Oakland and Berkeley
Author: Werner Hegemann
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Category : Art, Municipal
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Art, Municipal
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1532
Book Description
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1532
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