Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism (review)

While much of the ground Finder covers will be familiar to readers of Sadler, Kristin Ross, and others (not to mention the veritable cottage industry in French, of which a good number are noted here), Visions of the City makes several new claims on the readers attention: a critical consideration of...

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Published in:Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 2006, Vol.13 (4), p.757-759
Main Author: Pike, David L. (David Lawrence)
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Business
Cities
Context
French language
Lefebvre, Henri (1901-1991)
Nonfiction
Political power
Politics
Urban areas
Utopias
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Summary:While much of the ground Finder covers will be familiar to readers of Sadler, Kristin Ross, and others (not to mention the veritable cottage industry in French, of which a good number are noted here), Visions of the City makes several new claims on the readers attention: a critical consideration of the situationists in the context of twentieth-century urbanism, especially Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier; a depth of research and a careful historicization of the different situationists at different moments in the movement's history; and an analysis of the situationists' urbanism specifically in the context of Utopia. Visions of the City is framed by chapters that contextualize its concerns in terms of radical twentieth-century social movements, space theory (especially that of Henri Lefebvre), urban planning and architecture, and the vagaries of utopianism during the last century.
ISSN:1071-6068
1080-6601
1080-6601
DOI:10.1353/mod.2006.0090