Man-made future : planning, education and design in mid-twentieth-century Britain / [edited by] Iain Boyd Whyte.

Title & Author:

Man-made future : planning, education and design in mid-twentieth-century Britain / [edited by] Iain Boyd Whyte.

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, OX ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. 1947 and all that : why has the act lasted so long? / Jules Lubbock -- 2. Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness / Iain Boyd Whyte -- 3. Surveying and comprehensive planning : the 'co-ordination of knowledge' in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock A1 Michiel Dehaene -- 4. Everywhere at any time : post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future / Volker M. Welter -- 5. Perceptions in the conception of the modernist urban environment : Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt / Rhociri Windsor Liscombe -- 6. Selling the future city : images in UK post-war reconstruction plans / Peter J. Larkham -- 7. Paper dream city/modern monument : Donald Gibson and Coventry / Louise Campbell -- 8. Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain : some everyday experiences of the rebuilding of Coventry, 1944-62 / Keith D. Lilley -- 9. 'Into the world of conscious expression' : modernist revolutionaries at the architectural association, 1933-39 / Elizabeth Darling -- 10. PLAN : a student journal of ambition and anxiety / Clive B. Fenton -- 11. 'Destroy all humans!' / Simon Richards -- 12. The English university of the 1960s : built community, model universe / John McKean -- 13. The tall barracks artistically reconsidered : Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks and the total environment of modern military life / Miles Glendinning.

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ISBN:

0415357888 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415357896 (pbk.)
9780415357883 (hbk.)
9780415357890 (pbk.)
0203003950
9780203003954

Subject:

City planning Great Britain History 20th century.
Postwar reconstruction Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
City planning.
Postwar reconstruction.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252684
Call No.: BIB 182402
Status: Available

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