Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City

The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis. Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions. Bringing together a carefully chosen, wide-ranging team of experts, the book provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. As such, it is a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city. 1: Prologue; 1: Introduction: The Context; 2: Utopian Urbanism; 3: News from Nowhere; 4: The Word on the Street; 2: Manifestoes: Urban Visions; 5: The Idea of Modernity in Cerdà's Teoría General de la Urbanización; 6: Exporting the German Model; 7: Camillo Sitte; 8: Mr Howard and the Garden City; 9: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution; 3: Transformations: Urban Praxis; 10: Making London's Modernity; 11: Paris Space; 12: The Eixample (Ensanche) 1 of Barcelona (1859 and After); 13: The Significance and Impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse 1; 14: Berlin 1900; 15: Urban Planning as Representation; 16: Epilogue