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Invented Edens : Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262276733
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invented EdensDDC classification:
  • 307.7609/04
LOC classification:
  • HT166.K357 2008eb (O
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Arc of Utopias -- 1 Neotechnics in the Garden: The Marriage of Country and Town -- 2 Planning for National Regeneration: Techno-Cities in the Interwar Years -- 3 Techno-Città: Technology and Urban Design in Fascist Italy -- 4 The Techno-City Goes to War: America in World War II and After -- 5 Utopia Revived: From Industrial Modernism to Community -- 6 The City of Disciplines: Utopia Denied, Utopia Restored -- 7 Techno-Nostalgia and the New Urbanism -- Conclusion: The Fate of the Industrial Eden -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Arc of Utopias -- 1 Neotechnics in the Garden: The Marriage of Country and Town -- 2 Planning for National Regeneration: Techno-Cities in the Interwar Years -- 3 Techno-Città: Technology and Urban Design in Fascist Italy -- 4 The Techno-City Goes to War: America in World War II and After -- 5 Utopia Revived: From Industrial Modernism to Community -- 6 The City of Disciplines: Utopia Denied, Utopia Restored -- 7 Techno-Nostalgia and the New Urbanism -- Conclusion: The Fate of the Industrial Eden -- Notes -- Index.

Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral.

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