New Communities

New Communities
Author: United States. New Communities Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1976
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

The Fate of Cities

The Fate of Cities
Author: Roger Biles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first major comprehensive treatment of urban revitalization in 35 years. Examines the federal government's relationship with urban America from the Truman through the Clinton administrations. Provides a telling critique of how, in the long run, government turned a blind eye to the fate of cities.

Practicing Utopia

Practicing Utopia
Author: Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 022634603X

Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.

Future Cities

Future Cities
Author: Nick Dunn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350011630

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities. Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book. Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities. In this lavishly illustrated text, the authors apply several critical lenses to consider the subject in different ways: technological futures, social futures, and global futures, providing a comprehensive survey and analysis of visions for future cities, and engaging creatively with how we perceive tomorrow's world and future studies more widely.