The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design: A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs(Routledge Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city—its built environment—evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes and often in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces, including architects, planners, urban historians, urban geographers, and urban morphologists.

Table of Contents:
Prologue: The Nature of Urban Design Part One: Antecedents of Twentieth Century Urban Design Chapter 1. Religious Canons and Prescriptions Chapter 2. The Classical and Beaux Arts Tradition Chapter 3. Social and Philanthropic Urban Design Chapter 4. The Garden Suburb Chapter 5. The Urbanist Tradition Part Two: Early Twentieth Century Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Concepts, and Specific Designs Chapter 6. The City Beautiful Chapter 7. Modern Empiricism Chapter 8. The Rationalist Response Part Three: Post-World War Two Pragmatic Urban Design and The Rationalist and Empiricist Responses Chapter 9. The Post-World War Two Rationalists Chapter 10. The Post-World War Two Empiricists Chapter 11. The Postmodernist and The Deconstructivist Response Part Four: Urban Design in an Age of Corporate Financial Capital Chapter 12. Modernist, Neo-Modernist, and Hyper-Modernist Urban Design Chapter 13. Hyper-Modernism, Parametricism, and Urban Design Chapter 14. The Empiricist Responses Chapter 15, Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Design Chapter 16. Smart Cities and Urban Design Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward Chapter 17. A Critique of Twenty and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design Chapter 18. The Way Forward: Toward Compact Cities