عنوان

Culture, Urbanism and Planning

(Number (ISBN

0754680096

(Number (ISBN

9780754680093

Number

b554900

Title Proper

Culture, Urbanism and Planning

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Manuel Guardia

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Abingdon Taylor and Francis Ann Arbor, Michigan ProQuest

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1(314 pages).

Series Title

Heritage, Culture and Identity

Text of Note

Contents:Foreword, Roque Gistau Gistau; Introduction, F. Javier Monclus and Manuel Guardia. Part I Historical and Cultural Perspectives: History builds the town: on the uses of history in twentieth-century city planning, Michael Hebbert and Wolfgang Sonne; The cultural dimension of urban planning strategies: an historical perspective, Robert Freestone and Chris Gibson; Speak, culture! - culture in planning's past, present and future, Greg Young. Part II Images and Heritages: Capital Cities and Culture: Evolution of twentieth-century capital city planning, David L.A. Gordon; The power of anticipation: itinerant images of metropolitan futures: Buenos Aires, 1900-1920, Margarita Gutman; Words and history: controversies on urban heritage in Italy, Giorgio Piccinato; Urban destruction or preservation? Conservation movement and planning in 20th-century Scandinavian capitals, Laura Kolbe; Planning the historic city: 1960s plans for Bath and York, John Pendelbury; Multiple exposures or new cultural values? European historical centres and recent immigration fluxes, Alessandro Scarnato; New urbanism and planning history: back to the future, Christopher Silver. Part III Cultural Urbanism and Planning Strategies: Branding the city of culture - the death of city planning?, Graeme Evans; International exhibitions and planning. Hosting large-scale events as place promotion and as catalysts of urban regeneration, F. Javier Monclus; Contemporary urban spectacularisation, Lilian Vaz and Paula Berenstein; Culture, tradition and modernity in the Latin American city. Some recent experiences, Roberto Segre; `Cities are fun!': inventing and spreading the Baltimore model of cultural urbanism, Stephen Ward; Index.

Text of Note

This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies.

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Book number

Manuel Guardia

Javier Monclus

Manuel Guardia

Professor Brian Graham

Electronic name

[Book]

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