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Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America

Title
Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America / Harold L. Platt.
Author
Platt, Harold L.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.

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Description
301 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Summary
"Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to show how, over time, urban life created hybrid spaces that transformed people, culture, and their environments. As Platt explains, during the post-1945 race to technological modernization, policymakers gave urban planners of the International Style extraordinary influence to build their utopian vision of a self-sustaining "organic city." However, in the 1960s, they faced a revolt of the grassroots. Building the Urban Environment traces the rise and fall of the Modernist planners during an era of Cold War, urban crisis, unnatural disasters, and global restructuring in the wake of the oil-energy embargo of the '70s. Ultimately, Platt provides a way to measure different visions of the postwar city against actual results in terms of the built environment, contrasting how each city created a unique urban space"--Publisher's website.
Series Statement
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Uniform Title
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Alternative Title
Visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Subject
  • City planning > United States
  • City planning > Europe
  • City planning > Latin America
  • City planning
  • Stadtentwicklung
  • Stadtforschung
  • Umwelt
  • Stadsplanering
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • United States
  • Europa
  • Latinamerika
  • Förenta staterna
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Constructing Modernism. Introduction: Planners, policy makers, and the grass roots -- Growing the organic city, 1890-1945 -- Running the modernization race, 1945-1960 -- Case studies, 1945-1960 -- Deconstructing Modernism. Uprising against the planners, 1960-1968 -- Case studies, 1960-1968 -- Constructing the organic city, 1968-1980 -- Case studies, 1968-1980 -- Conclusions: City of flows, city of citizens.
ISBN
  • 9781439912362
  • 143991236X
  • 9781439912379
  • 1439912378
  • 9781439912386 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014050014
OCLC
  • ocn900634142
  • 900634142
  • SCSB-14496236
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library