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Paradoxical Urbanism
- Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism
Engelsk Paperback
Paradoxical Urbanism
- Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9789811563430
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9811563438
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Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2021
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2021
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