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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Hugh Kargon; Arthur P Molella |
| ISBN: | 9780262113205 0262113201 |
| OCLC Number: | 182056654 |
| Description: | viii, 190 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The arc of utopias -- Neotechnics in the garden : the marriage of country and town -- Planning for national regeneration : techno-cities in the interwar years -- Techno-città : technology and urban design in fascist Italy -- The techno-city goes to war : America in World War II and after -- Utopia revived : from industrial modernism to community -- The city of disciplines : utopia denied, utopia restored -- Techno-nostalgia and the new urbanism -- Conclusion: The fate of the industrial Eden. |
| Series Title: | Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation. |
| Responsibility: | Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella. |
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"With imagination and wide-ranging scholarship, Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella bring together Techno-Cities from New Deal America to fascist Italy to communist Russia. And behind this remarkable synthesis is a deep examination of the power and limitation of utopian planning to shape actual cities." --Robert Fishman, Emil Lorch Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan "Invented Edens offers a profoundly original perspective on the interaction between technology and everyday life in the twentieth century. Using case studies of planned urban environments, the book makes a path-breaking contribution to our understanding of modernity. Kargon and Molella present a galaxy of visionaries--and show in fascinating detail how the interplay between the ideas and actions of these modern-minded critics of the machine-age contributed to the fashioning of cityscapes in which industrial technology and human values could exist in harmony, not in conflict." --Robert Fox, Department of History, Oxford University Read more...
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