Landscape and Utopia
Jody Beck, "Landscape and Utopia "
English | ISBN: 1138483869 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1138483869 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory.
The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society – including the connections between social relations and the built environment.
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