{"product_id":"early-urban-planning-1870-1940","title":"Early Urban Planning: 1870-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis set is a carefully balanced selection of writings representing some of the most important currents in the thought of city and regional planning during the period 1870-1940 when urban planning emerged as a serious disciplinary field.\u003cbr\u003eThe set consists of eight key books from this period, handsomely illustrated and reproduced in their entirety, and a separate volume of fifteen seminal short selections - all by major figures of the time, such as Abercrombie, Geddes, and the Olmsteds. Soria y Mata's writings on the linear city also appear in translation for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to seminal works on city planning, the set covers themes such as neighbourhood, Utopian and visionary planning; planning for parks; housing; transportation systems, and public health. A wide variety of cities feature including Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Manchester, New York and San Francisco, showing a great diversity of cultural styles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly Urban Planning 1870-1940\u003c\/em\u003e is of continued importance today, as it highlights ideals which remain strikingly relevant in development of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45541844222190,"sku":"9780415160858","price":3864.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/early-urban-planning-1870-1940","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}