Town planning in the Netherlands since 1800 : responses to enlightenment ideas and geopolitical realities / Cor Wagenaar.

Main entry:

Wagenaar, Cor.

Title & Author:

Town planning in the Netherlands since 1800 : responses to enlightenment ideas and geopolitical realities / Cor Wagenaar.

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2011.

Description:

639 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 614-624) and indexes.

Summary:

"Underlying the evolution of Dutch urbanism are the ideas fostered by the Enlightenment, ideas which ushered in the end of the Republic of the Seven Provinces and resurfaced time and again; modernism, for instance, is presented as determined by them. The combination of Enlightenment ideas and geopolitical realities sheds new light on the multitude of events related here - the emergence of a national railway network that replaced the historical water-based infrastructure; the reconstruction of the landscape, first in order to boost agriculture and then to accommodate suburban sprawl; the creation of planning techniques respected throughout the world; and finally, their replacement by the sometimes nebulous forms of public-private partnerships."

ISBN:

9789064506826
9064506825

Subject:

City planning Netherlands History.
Regional planning Netherlands History.
Aménagement du territoire Pays-Bas Histoire.
City planning.
Regional planning.
Netherlands.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Responses to enlightenment ideas and geopolitical realities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276834
Call No.: HT169.N4 W3 2011
Status: Available

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