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Paradise Planned The Garden Suburb and the Modern City

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ISBN-10: 1580933262

ISBN-13: 9781580933261

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, Jacob Tilove

List price: $108.00
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From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in England in the 1830s and still dominates residential architecture today.As malls are abandoned and mortgages are foreclosed, the retrofitting of the suburbs is a central issue in urban planning today. New strategies are emerging creating walk-able communities with social and retail centres that hark back to the original concept of the suburb. These bucolic settings, first developed in the mid-nineteenth century, offered an ideal lifestyle outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and…    
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Book details

List price: $108.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1072
Size: 10.00" wide x 12.50" long x 3.00" tall
Weight: 13.310
Language: English

Architect, educator, and architectural historianRobert A. M. Sternis the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architectus and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. In addition to monographs on the firm's work, Stern has written a series of books on New York's architecture and urbanism, includingNew York 1880, New York 1900, New York 1930,andNew York 1960. Vincent Scullyis the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University. Scully is the author of more than a dozen influential books of which the best known areThe Shingle Style and Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright,Architecture: The Natural and the Man-Made,…