Paradoxical urbanism : anti-urban currents in modern urbanism / Malcolm Miles.

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Paradoxical urbanism : anti-urban currents in modern urbanism / Malcolm Miles.

9789811563416 (electronic bk.)
9811563411 (electronic bk.)
9811563403
9789811563409

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

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10.1007/978-981-15-6341-6 doi
10.1007/978-981-15-6

HT361 .M55 2021

307.76

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues that these two currents undermine modernisms progressive vision. This book examines the roots of modernist urbanism in the seamless, self-contained systems of Cartesian space; and identifies contradictions within modernist urbanism in its instrumentalism and reliance on de-politicised professional expertise. Miles adroitly reviews the postmodern culture of industrial ruinscapes; and posits that if cities are to be places of proximity, diversity, mobility and agency, this will require a move from modernist instrumentalism to a creative and radically democratic co-production of the built environment.

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