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In the Suburbs of History

Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery. Global Suburbanisms

By (author) Steven Logan
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
Published: 16th Dec 2020
Dimensions: w 155mm h 234mm d 23mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN-10: 1487507887
ISBN-13: 9781487507886
Barcode No: 9781487507886
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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.

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