Paradoxical urbanism : anti-urban currents in modern urbanism / Malcolm Miles.
Miles, Malcolm, 1950- author.
2021
HT361 .M55 2021
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Title Paradoxical urbanism : anti-urban currents in modern urbanism / Malcolm Miles.
Author Miles, Malcolm, 1950- author.
ISBN 9789811563416 (electronic bk.)
9811563411 (electronic bk.)
9811563403
9789811563409
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6341-6
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-15-6341-6 doi
10.1007/978-981-15-6
Call Number HT361 .M55 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020).
Series Palgrave pivot.
Available in Other Form Paradoxical urbanism.
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Chapter 1 Colliding Utopias
Chapter 2 From Arcadia to Plotlands
Chapter 3 Drawing a Line
Chapter 4 The Contradictions of Modernism
Chapter 5 Post-industrial Ruinscapes
Chapter 6 An Urban Revolution?

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