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Genre/Form: | Books |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ken Worpole |
ISBN: | 1861890737 9781861890733 |
OCLC Number: | 43819112 |
Description: | 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The body and the city: An introductory essay -- 1. Here comes the sun: Port sunlight, town planning and the new life -- 2. Our northern hearts: Architecture, design and the art of right living -- 3. Live out of doors as much as you can: The architecture as public health -- 4. Bring the landscape into the house: Housing for the new society -- 5. Parks, pleasure gardens and the democracy of the open air -- 6. Summer in the city: The cult of the lido -- 7. Limits to growth: Nature and society restored -- Coda: Beneath city skies: New parks in Europe. |
Responsibility: | Ken Worpole. |
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...a fascinating account of the political idealism that informed urban planning for the first two-thirds of the twentieth-century...full of insights into how public space influences a sense of belonging and ownership. Guardian This is one of those books you stroke lovingly. Open it, and there is page after page of beautiful photographs...this book combines history, society, politics, environment and place in a well-written and emotive text. The strength of the book is the way it crosses these traditional boundaries and disciplines. Town and Country Planning Drawing on architectural theories, philosophy, literature and even filmmaking, Worpole's book is wide-ranging and erudite and should be of interest to the layperson as well as to the urban planner. It is also elegantly written and complemented by a mixture of black and white and colour photographs to provide a visual emphasis to the points he raises. N16 Magazine Read more...

