Paradoxical Urbanism : Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism Hardback
by Malcolm Miles
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 13 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 128 p. 13 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:06/09/2020
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- ISBN:9789811563409
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 13 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 128 p. 13 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:06/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9789811563409
