Imagined utopias in the built environment : from London's Vauxhall Garden to the Black Rock desert / by Anna Novakov.
Material type: TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (x, 140 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1443862649
- 9781443862646
- Urban landscape architecture -- History
- City planning -- History
- Visionary architecture
- Utopias
- Paysage urbain -- Histoire
- Architecture visionnaire
- Utopies
- visionary architecture
- utopian literature
- utopias
- ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape
- GARDENING -- Garden Design
- GARDENING -- Landscape
- City planning
- Urban landscape architecture
- Utopias
- Visionary architecture
- 720.1 23
- NA209.5 .N682 2017eb
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Beginning with the early history of London's Vauxhall pleasure gardens, this volume surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th century to the present. The recurrence of themes of technology, individual agency and communal living in the work of Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames and Constant Nieuwenhuys, testifies to the continued search for an ideal personal and public space. Inspired by works of fiction such as Utopia, Herland, Mizora: World of Women and Homo Ludens and the films Metropolis and Stalker, artists and architects created fantastic plans for indi.
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