| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Series |
Global suburbanisms |
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Global suburbanisms.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Crossing Divides -- Looking for the Antithesis of the Suburb -- Socialist Space -- South City as a Work of Art in the Age of Mass-Produced Dwellings -- Redesigning the Post-war Suburban Landscape -- The "Total Image": The Making of Willowdale Modern -- Conclusion: Unearthing the Suburban Core. |
| Summary |
"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 14, 2020). |
| Subject |
Suburbs -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
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Suburbs -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century.
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City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
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City planning -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century.
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National socialism and architecture -- Ontario -- Toronto.
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National socialism and architecture -- Czech Republic -- Prague.
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City planning. (OCoLC)fst00862177
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National socialism and architecture. (OCoLC)fst01033785
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Suburbs. (OCoLC)fst01136941
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Czech Republic -- Prague.
(OCoLC)fst01205207
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Ontario -- Toronto.
(OCoLC)fst01205798
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Logan, Steven, 1974- In the suburbs of history. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021] 9781487525439 (DLC) 2020476332 (OCoLC)1146566964 |
| ISBN |
9781487537159 EPUB |
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9781487537142 (electronic book) |
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