Man-made future planning, education, and design in mid-20th century Britain / edited by Iain Boyd Whyte.

Other author Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, OX ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 1947 and all that : why has the act lasted so long? / Jules Lubbock -- Otto Neurath and the sociology of happiness / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Surveying and comprehensive planning : the co-ordination of knowledge in the wartime plans of Patrick Abercrombie and Max Lock / Michiel Dehaene -- Everywhere at any time : post-Second World War genealogies of the city of the future / Volker M. Welter -- Perceptions in the conception of the modernist urban environment : Canadian perspectives on the spatial theory of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt / Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe -- Selling the future city : images in UK post-war reconstructions plans / Peter Larkham -- Paper dream city/modern monument : Donald Gibson and Coventry / Louise Campbell -- Conceptions and perceptions of urban futures in early post-war Britain / Keith Lilley -- "Into the world of conscious expression" : modernist revolutionaries at the Architectural Association School, 1933-39 / Elizabeth Darling -- Plan: a student journal of ambition and anxiety / Clive B. Fenton -- "Destroy all humans!" / Simon Richards -- The English university of the 1960s : built community, model universe / John McKean -- The tall barracks artistically reconsidered : Hyde Park cavalry barracks and the total environment of military life / Miles Glendinning.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2006022927
ISBN0415357888 (hbk : alk. paper)
ISBN0415357896 (pbk)

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