Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

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Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City is written by Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1409488470 (ISBN 10) and 9781409488477 (ISBN 13).

The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis. Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. As such, it is a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city.