Society and environment : a historical review / Jaqueline Tyrwhitt ; introduction by Ellen Shoshkes.
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt's key texts to illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes' bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced p...
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| Language: | English |
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2015.
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| Series: | Studies in international planning history.
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| Summary: | Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt's key texts to illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes' bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced post-war academic discourse and professional practice in urban planning and design internationally. The key texts reprinted in this book are contributions from the Town and Country Planning Textbook (1950) which was published as an outcome for the Correspondence Course in Town Planning for members of the Allie. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317434672 1317434676 9781315692890 1315692899 9781317434658 131743465X 9781317434665 1317434668 0415706599 9780415706599 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 6, 2015) |