Paradoxical Urbanism: Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism

by Malcolm Miles

Book Overview

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 modernism's progressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811563438
• ISBN13: 9789811563430
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"