Timing the Future Metropolis
- Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Udgivet:
- 15. november 2024
- Størrelse:
- 152x229x22 mm.
- Vægt:
- 562 g.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 6. december 2024
På lager
Normalpris
Abonnementspris
- Rabat på køb af fysiske bøger
- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
Beskrivelse af Timing the Future Metropolis
Timing the Future Metropolis--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT.
Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. By the 1970s, however, the Joint Center had become a leading incubator of neoconservative critics who questioned whether experts could ever know enough about that future to effect positive change.
Timing the Future Metropolis compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, as Ekman rethinks how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.
Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. By the 1970s, however, the Joint Center had become a leading incubator of neoconservative critics who questioned whether experts could ever know enough about that future to effect positive change.
Timing the Future Metropolis compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, as Ekman rethinks how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.
Brugerbedømmelser af Timing the Future Metropolis
Giv din bedømmelse
For at bedømme denne bog, skal du være logget ind.Andre købte også..
Find lignende bøger
Bogen Timing the Future Metropolis findes i følgende kategorier:
© 2024 Pling BØGER Registered company number: DK43351621