In the Suburbs of History : Modernist Visions of the Urban Periphery /

"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 developmen...

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Main Author: Logan, Steven, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.