Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850

Eric Mumford

Published by Yale University Press 2018

Designing the Modern City

Urbanism Since 1850

Eric Mumford

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300230390

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About this book

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present.

Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world’s population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called “urbanism.” He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities.

This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers’ efforts to shape cities.

Author / Editor information

Eric Mumford is Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE. The Emergence of Modern Urbanism European Cities in the Nineteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
CHAPTER TWO. Cities in the Americas and the International Influence of the City Beautiful Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
CHAPTER THREE. From Tenement Reform to Regional Planning, 1840–1932 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
CHAPTER FOUR. The Emergence of Avant- Garde Urbanism in the 1920s and 1930s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
CHAPTER FIVE. Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern Urbanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
CHAPTER SIX. Urban Design, Team 10, and Metabolism After 1953 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
CHAPTER SEVEN. Crisis of Utopia Rejections and Revisions of Modern Planning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
CHAPTER EIGHT. Globalization and Urbanism fr om the 1950s to the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Illustration Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 125 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: April 10, 2018
ISBN: 9780300230390