In the suburbs of history : modernist visions of the urban periphery /
Logan, Steven, 1974-
In the suburbs of history : modernist visions of the urban periphery / Steven Logan. - 1 online resource. - Global suburbanisms . - Global suburbanisms. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Crossing Divides -- Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb -- Socialist Space -- South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings -- Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape -- The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern -- Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core.
"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."--
9781487537159 1487537158 148753714X 9781487537142
20200310135 can
1900-1999
Suburbs--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Suburbs--History--Czech Republic--Prague--20th century.
City planning--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
City planning--History--Czech Republic--Prague--20th century.
National socialism and architecture--Ontario--Toronto.
National socialism and architecture--Czech Republic--Prague.
City planning
National socialism and architecture
Suburbs
Czech Republic--Prague
Ontario--Toronto
History
Electronic books.
HT352.C32 / T67 2020
307.7609713/541
In the suburbs of history : modernist visions of the urban periphery / Steven Logan. - 1 online resource. - Global suburbanisms . - Global suburbanisms. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Crossing Divides -- Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb -- Socialist Space -- South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings -- Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape -- The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern -- Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core.
"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."--
9781487537159 1487537158 148753714X 9781487537142
20200310135 can
1900-1999
Suburbs--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Suburbs--History--Czech Republic--Prague--20th century.
City planning--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
City planning--History--Czech Republic--Prague--20th century.
National socialism and architecture--Ontario--Toronto.
National socialism and architecture--Czech Republic--Prague.
City planning
National socialism and architecture
Suburbs
Czech Republic--Prague
Ontario--Toronto
History
Electronic books.
HT352.C32 / T67 2020
307.7609713/541