Main entry:

De Wolfe, Ivor.

Title & Author:

Civilia: the end of sub urban man : a challenge to Semidetsia / edited by Ivor de Wofle.

Publication:

London, Architectural Press, 1971.
©1971

Description:

[2], 156 pages (4 folded) : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Fontispiece: the site of Civilia -- Foreword / Ian Nairn -- Towards a philosophy of the environment / Ivor de Wolfe -- Introduction: Deep-out fill -- Planners' report / Rodney Carran and Michael Rowley -- Site analysis / Kenneth Browne -- VA v EVA* (Vehicular activity versus Extra-vehicular activity) -- Marina -- Quay -- Pop end -- Spa -- Ambulatory -- Street -- Home -- Green -- Tivoli -- Conclusion: Deep infill.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Civilia, a low-rise high density city of revolutionary concepts and a million people was created to challenge a not-so-new development established beyond doubt by the 1971 census -- the steady drift of population from our city centres into what were rural areas until the drift itself converted them into suburbs, semis, housing estates or New Towns. The drift was made possible by the car but has, in the words of the 'Daily Telegraph', been 'encouraged' by the planners familiar though they are with the disaster the same drift is bringing to American cities where urban dispersal (after all save the have-nots have fled) leaves central areas either hotbeds of violence or despair or, (like Birmingham's Bull Ring) a nightly no-man's-land, peopled by none but cops and bums. 'How can the drift go on' asks the 'Telegraph' 'without killing both cities and countryside.' It can't, and this book spells out the cure" -- Publisher's description from book jacket.

ISBN:

0851391265
9780851391267
0851391235

Subject:

City planning.
Imaginary places.
Urban renewal.
Suburbs.
Cities and towns.
Land use Planning.
Residential mobility.
Migration, Internal.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
Town planning Case studies

Added entries:

Nairn, Ian, writer of foreword.
Carran, Rodney, contributor.
Browne, Kenneth, contributor.
Rowley, Michael, contributor.
Architectural Press, publisher.
Diemer and Reynolds Ltd., printer.
Weatherby Woolnough, binder.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 140629
Call No.: W14798; ID:85-B26017
Status: Available

Location: Library main 140630
Call No.: W7520; ID:85-B26017
Status: Available