In the suburbs of history [electronic resource] : modernist visions of the urban periphery / Steven Logan.
Material type: TextSeries: Global suburbanismsPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resourceISBN:- 9781487537142
- 148753714X
- 9781487537159
- 1487537158
- 9781487541385
- 1487541384
- In the Suburbs of History: Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery
- Suburbs -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
- Suburbs -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
- City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century
- City planning -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
- National socialism and architecture -- Ontario -- Toronto
- National socialism and architecture -- Czech Republic -- Prague
- Banlieues -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Banlieues -- République tchèque -- Prague -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Nazisme et architecture -- Ontario -- Toronto
- Nazisme et architecture -- République tchèque -- Prague
- City planning
- National socialism and architecture
- Suburbs
- Czech Republic -- Prague
- Ontario -- Toronto
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- HT352.C22 T675 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index (pages 213-225).
Introduction: Crossing Divides -- Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb -- Socialist Space -- South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings -- Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape -- The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern -- Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core.
"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."-- Provided by publisher.
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