Designing the Modern City
Regular price
€41.99
A01=Eric Mumford
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
asia
Author_Eric Mumford
automatic-update
beijing
brazil
case studies
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AMVD
chicago
CIAM
cities
city beautiful movement
city planning
COP=United States
crowding
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
design
environmentalism
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
futurism
global
industrial revolution to present
infrastructure projects
International Congresses of Modern Architecture
international influence
Language_English
london
mass housing
midcentury modernism
middle east
modernism
modernization
new urbanism
new york
PA=Available
paris
photography
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
regional planning
shanghai
softlaunch
Team 10
tenement reform
urban planning
Product details
- ISBN 9780300207729
- Weight: 1043g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2018
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present
“An engaging read for urban planners and non-designer urbanists. . . . The extent and detail of Mumford’s geographical coverage of the topics are exceptional.”—Christopher Auffrey, Journal of Urban Affairs
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.
“An engaging read for urban planners and non-designer urbanists. . . . The extent and detail of Mumford’s geographical coverage of the topics are exceptional.”—Christopher Auffrey, Journal of Urban Affairs
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.
Eric Mumford is Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
