Paradoxical Urbanism
Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism
(Sprache: Englisch)
Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the...
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Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues that these two currents undermine modernism's progressive vision. This book examines the roots of modernist urbanism in the seamless, self-contained systems of Cartesian space; and identifies contradictions within modernist urbanism in its instrumentalism and reliance on de-politicised professional expertise. Miles adroitly reviews the postmodern culture of industrial ruinscapes; and posits that if cities are to be places of proximity, diversity, mobility and agency, this will require a move from modernist instrumentalism to a creative and radically democratic co-production of the built environment.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Paradoxical Urbanism “
Chapter 1 Colliding Utopias.Chapter 2 From Arcadia to Plotlands.Chapter 3 Drawing a Line.Chapter 4 The Contradictions of Modernism.Chapter 5 Post-industrial Ruinscapes.Chapter 6 An Urban Revolution?.
Autoren-Porträt von Malcolm Miles
Malcolm Miles is a writer on modern and contemporary culture, theory and urbanism. His research spans the humanities and social sciences, drawing on twentieth-century critical theory and more recent reconsiderations of the radical Left. He is author of Cities and Literature (2019), Cities and Culture (2007), and Limits to Culture (2015). He retired as Professor of Cultural Theory in the Architecture School, University of Plymouth in 2016.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Malcolm Miles
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, IX, 128 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 9811563438
- ISBN-13: 9789811563430
Sprache:
Englisch
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