Designing Utopia: John Ruskin's Urban Vision for Britain and AmericaAlthough his name is not one that springs to mind when the public thinks of influential urban planners and designers, John ruskin was undoubtedly a most important influence. Art critic, social reformer, giant of English literature, his prodigious output of books, pamphlets and lectures, as well as his efforts at practical reform, established his tremendous reputation in Britain and America. More than providing a vision statement, he challenged artists, architects and town planners to collaborate on developing prototypes of his vision. To a remarkable extent they succeeded in doing so and thereby created a legacy of good community design that this book highlights. Designing Utopia presents a broad overview of John Ruskin's life: the development of his views on architecture and urban design, as well as his views on social justice; how his vision was developed in his writings; his efforts at practical application of that vision, in particular his efforts to build a guild based society. Finally the book analyses how Ruskin's urban vision influenced the work of a long line of progressive architects and planners and the buildings and communities they designed modern urban designers such as Lewis Mumford, Patrick Geddes, Ebenezer Howard. The work of these figures are then related to current practitioners of the New Urbanism such as Duaney and Plater-Zyberk. |
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Page 185
... land trust . The urban land trust is an approach to land tenure that is a variant of the more familiar open space land trust organized to purchase easements and development rights so as to protect land from development . The urban ...
... land trust . The urban land trust is an approach to land tenure that is a variant of the more familiar open space land trust organized to purchase easements and development rights so as to protect land from development . The urban ...
Page 192
... land use reform is now emerging . This can be seen in the growing numbers of regional land trust organizations as well as the significant support engendered by statewide regional planning efforts in such states as New Jersey and ...
... land use reform is now emerging . This can be seen in the growing numbers of regional land trust organizations as well as the significant support engendered by statewide regional planning efforts in such states as New Jersey and ...
Page 215
... Land Trust 185 Urban Planning 85,86,87,93,98,119,192 Urban Reform 165 Urban & Regional Land Use Planning Controls 40 Urbanization 9 Veblin , Thorstein 141 Veiller , Lawrence 144,147,163 Venice 27 Venturi , Robert 161,170,179 Vernacular ...
... Land Trust 185 Urban Planning 85,86,87,93,98,119,192 Urban Reform 165 Urban & Regional Land Use Planning Controls 40 Urbanization 9 Veblin , Thorstein 141 Veiller , Lawrence 144,147,163 Venice 27 Venturi , Robert 161,170,179 Vernacular ...
Contents
The Development Of A Visionary | 3 |
Ruskins Urban Vision | 19 |
Ruskins Efforts At Practical Town Planning | 48 |
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