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Paradise Planned : The Garden Suburb and the Modern City by David Fishman, Robert A. M. Stern and Jacob Tilove (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMonacelli Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101580933262
ISBN-139781580933261
eBay Product ID (ePID)159802081
Product Key Features
Book TitleParadise Planned : the Garden Suburb and the Modern City
Number of Pages1072 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUrban & Land Use Planning, Sociology / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, History / General
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Architecture, Social Science
AuthorDavid Fishman, Robert A. M. Stern, Jacob Tilove
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight218.5 Oz
Item Length12.5 in
Item Width10.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-020286
Dewey Edition23
Reviews" Paradise Planned , a massive history of the garden suburb, comes out next month. It's vintage Stern, contrarian and sweeping: At a time when it's fashionable to give the suburbs up for dead, he puts out an exhaustive ode to the bucolic enclave. That has always been Stern's strength. He's so old-fashioned that he's practically countercultural." -- New York magazine "From architect Robert A. M. Stern's firm comes a comprehensive history of the garden suburb movement, which emerged in England during the 1830s. The volume also serves as a guide for current and future urban planning." -- Architectural Digest, "From architect Robert A. M. Stern's firm comes a comprehensive history of the garden suburb movement, which emerged in England during the 1830s. The volume also serves as a guide for current and future urban planning." -- Architectural Digest, "When Paradise Planned arrived at my home--all 1,072 extra-thick high-gloss pages--my first instinct was to set the volume down on its own half-acre lot, give it a peaked roof, and simply move in. All this bulk has a larger purpose: to prove overwhelmingly that the topic is not marginal or slight--that you can't fathom the modern city without understanding the immemorial longing for a house in a bower, just outside the city walls. The authors deploy industrial quantities of homework and buckets of elegant prose--not to mention maps, drawings, then-and-now snapshots, close-up details, and aerial views--to rescue a 'tragically interrupted, 150-year-old tradition' from modern disrepute." -- Architectural Record " Paradise Planned , a massive history of the garden suburb, comes out next month. It's vintage Stern, contrarian and sweeping: At a time when it's fashionable to give the suburbs up for dead, he puts out an exhaustive ode to the bucolic enclave. That has always been Stern's strength. He's so old-fashioned that he's practically countercultural." -- New York magazine "'A 1,072-page behemoth, beautifully designed by Pentagram, that is a global Baedeker to the long and interesting history of the planned suburb. The book documents projects all over Europe and North America, and also ranges as far as Brazil, Israel, Japan, and Australia. There is no doubt that Paradise Planned will become the prime source on the subject. The book provides ample information about the backgrounds of scores of projects, many today forgotten, most rarely published. It shows how deeply the idea of the garden suburb was embedded in the public consciousness, and how it influenced not only garden city advocates, but architects and planners worldwide, including modernist pioneers Eliel Saarinen in Finland, Lewerentz in Sweden, Dudok in Holland, and Le Corbusier in France. . . . A gauntlet flung in the face of modernist urban theory. 'Suburbs will not go away nor should they,' Stern and company write. 'Planned as part of the metropolitan city, the garden suburb is the best template yet devised to achieve a habitable earthly paradise.'" -- Witold Rybczynski, Designers & Books "From architect Robert A. M. Stern's firm comes a comprehensive history of the garden suburb movement, which emerged in England during the 1830s. The volume also serves as a guide for current and future urban planning." -- Architectural Digest
Dewey Decimal307.7409
SynopsisParadise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape., From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in England in the 1830s and still dominates residential architecture today., From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in England in the 1830s and still dominates residential architecture today. Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United States and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.
LC Classification NumberHT161.S74 2013
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