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Cities of Tomorrow

Author: Peter Hall

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.
The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

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Readings provide students with a range of interpretations, by Schumpeter, Isaiah Berlin, Croce, Lukacs, Miliband, Gramsci, Althusser, Poulantzas and Habermas. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

List of Figures.
Preface to the First Edition.
Preface to the Third Edition.
Acknowledgements.
1. Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions of the Good City, 1880-1987.
2. The City of Dreadful Night: Reactions to the Nineteenth-Century Slum City: London; Paris; Berlin; New York, 1880-1900.
3. The City of By-Pass Variegated: The Mass Transit Suburb: London; New York, 1900-1940.
4. The City in the Garden: The Garden City Solution: London; Paris; Berlin; New York, 1900-1940.
5. The City in the Region: The Birth of Regional Planning: Edinburgh; New York; London, 1900-1940.
6. The City of Monuments: The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago; New Delhi; Berlin; Moscow, 1900-1940.
7. The City of Towers: The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris; Chandigarh; Brasilia; London; St Louis, 1920-1970.
8. The City of Sweat Equity: The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh; Indore; Lima; Berkeley; Macclesfield, 1890-1987.
9. The City on the Highway: The Automobile Suburb: Long Island; Wisconsin; Los Angeles; Paris, 1930-1987.
10. The City of Theory: Planning and the Academy: Philadelphia; Manchester; California; Paris, 1955-1987.
11. The City of Enterprise: Planning turned Upside Down: Baltimore; Hong Kong; London, 1975-2000.
12. The City of the Tarnished Belle Epoque: Infocities and Informationless Ghettos: New York; London; Tokyo, 1985-2000.
13. The City of the Permanent Underclass: The Enduring Slum: Chicago; St Louis; London, 1920-1987.
References.
Index.

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South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias

Author: Brian C Anderson

For the better part of 30 years, liberal bias has dominated mainstream media. But author and political journalist Brian Anderson reveals in his new book that the era of liberal dominance is going the way of the dodo bird.

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The purpose of Anderson's book is subtle and -- in spite of its just-folks pretenses -- intellectual: claiming cultural territory for conservatives not by seizing it outright but by crawling gingerly across it, inch by inch, with his arm over his head, as if a liberal weenie might jump out and clobber him at any moment. By all appearances, he wants to seem reasonable, and his book tries to maintain a tone of genial detachment. But it also puts forward a deeply partisan argument: the American right is more reasonable than the American left and, what's more, conservatives are still being suppressed by liberal bullies.