Author : Leonardo Benevolo
Release : 1971-08-15
Genre : Architecture
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The Origins of Modern Town Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of Modern Town Planning write by Leonardo Benevolo. This book was released on 1971-08-15. The Origins of Modern Town Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the social origins and history of town planning in nineteenth-century England and France. Carefully documented and copiously illustrated, Origins of Modern Town Planning delves into the social origins and history of town planning in nineteenth-century England and France.The touchstone of Benevolo's research is the relationship between town planning and politics. The twofold origin of the planning concept found expression in two schools of nineteenth-century thought: the Utopians—Owen, Saint-Simon, Fourier—and their active vision of the town as a self-sufficient, coherent organism are contrasted with the specialists and officials who endeavored to remedy each urban defect individually by introducing new health regulations and social legislation into already existing towns. Despite the conceptual difference, however, Benevolo points out the shared ideology which inspired all achievements of thought and action—even the purely technical—and establishes its correspondence in spirit up to the time of modern socialism.