Main entry:

Fishman, Robert, 1946-

Title & Author:

Urban utopias in the twentieth century : Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman.

Edition:

1st MIT Press pbk. ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1982, ©1977.

Description:

xiv, 332 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-323) and index.
Part I. Ebenezer Howard -- 1. The Ideal City Made Practicable -- 2. Inventing the Garden City -- 3. Design for Cooperation -- 4. The Peaceful Path -- 5. Building the Garden City -- 6. Elder Statesman -- 7. Beyond the Grave -- 8. Summation -- Part II. Frank Lloyd Wright -- 9. Truth against the World -- 10. An American Boyhood -- 11. Chicago and Oak Park -- 12. In the Wilderness -- 13. Broadacre City -- 14. Community and Culture -- 15. Prophetic Leadership -- 16. The Living City -- 17. Summation -- Part III. Le Corbusier -- 18. Contrasts -- 19. Self-Creation -- 20. Architecture or Revolution -- 21. The Contemporary City -- 22. Plan Voisin -- 23. The Ghost of Colbert -- 24. The Radiant City -- 25. Quest for Authority -- 26. Vichy -- 27. Triumph and Disillusionment -- 28. Summation.

Summary:

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.'

ISBN:

0262560232 (pbk.)
9780262560238 (pbk.)
046508933X
9780465089338

Subject:

Howard, Ebenezer, Sir, 1850-1928.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Howard, Ebenezer, 1850-1928.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Cities
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Villes.
cities.
urban planning.
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Wonen.
Profetieën.
Utopieën.
Howard.
Le Corbusier.
Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 35399
Call No.: HT161.F5 1982 (ID:88-B6707)
Status: Available