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Villages of vision : [a study of strange utopias]

Title
Villages of vision : [a study of strange utopias] / Gillian Darley.
Author
Darley, Gillian.
Publication
Nottingham : Five Leaves Publications, 2007.

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Description
341 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Villages of Vision is a much celebrated and pioneering book about planned villages. Gillian Darley includes many hundreds, among them the strange and pretty arcadias built by conscience-stricken aristocrats, industrialists and visionaries." "This revised edition includes a greatly expanded gazetteer, a revised bibliography and a new introduction. The subject is as timely as ever. Bournville and New Earswick are still shrines to the optimism of philanthropic industrialists of high principle, while their charitable foundations lead the way in thinking about communities and social housing. The gazetteer shows, county by county, where such villages can be seen - not as museums but as evolving, living places."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1700-2007
  • City planning > Great Britain > History
  • Villages > Great Britain
  • Housing > Great Britain
  • Cottages > Great Britain
  • Architecture, Domestic
  • dwellings
  • Cottages
  • Architecture, Domestic
  • City planning
  • Housing
  • Villages
  • Stadtplanung
  • Wohnen
  • Idealstadt
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally published: London : Architectural Press, 1975.
Contents
The Park Overtakes the Village -- Architects of the Artificial Village: Professional and Amateur -- "Planning Picturesqueness" -- Blaise Hamlet and After -- Villadom -- Reformers and Their Villages -- Orphanages and Aesthetic Retreats -- The Early Industrial Village -- Bourneville and Port Sunlight: Two Approaches to a Problem -- Utopias -- "There is a boom coming in Garden Cities" -- Ireland and Scotland -- The Vision of the Village -- The Private Sector in a Public Age -- No New Villages? -- Gazetteer: England -- Gazetteer: Scotland -- Gazetteer: Wales -- Gazetteer: Ireland.
ISBN
  • 0907123503
  • 9780907123507
OCLC
  • ocn171110473
  • 171110473
  • SCSB-14654778
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library