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 57
... Suburbs While Ruskin groused about them , others were very impressed with these planned communities . Their success was sufficient to help influence the development of related , but more grandiose , plans for what became known as the ...
... Suburbs While Ruskin groused about them , others were very impressed with these planned communities . Their success was sufficient to help influence the development of related , but more grandiose , plans for what became known as the ...
Page 62
... Suburbs such as Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb . Still others such as Winmill and A.J. Soutar would achieve a muted fame for their designs for so called cottage estates , or early public housing projects in London ( 1913 ) ...
... Suburbs such as Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb . Still others such as Winmill and A.J. Soutar would achieve a muted fame for their designs for so called cottage estates , or early public housing projects in London ( 1913 ) ...
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... suburban sprawl . In New Jersey , the Governor , Christie Todd Whitman , used the occasion of her second inaugural address ... suburbs we are presented with problems of growth management of unprecedented proportions . While there are no ...
... suburban sprawl . In New Jersey , the Governor , Christie Todd Whitman , used the occasion of her second inaugural address ... suburbs we are presented with problems of growth management of unprecedented proportions . While there are no ...
Contents
The Development Of A Visionary | 3 |
Ruskins Urban Vision | 19 |
Ruskins Efforts At Practical Town Planning | 48 |
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