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Landscape and Utopia
Landscape and Utopia

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"This book examines three landmark utopian visions in 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890's and the 1940's was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labour; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society - including the connections between social relations and the built environment. Landscape and Utopia examines the role of landscapes in the political imaginations of the Garden City, the Radiant City, and Broadacre City. Each project uses landscapes to propose a reconstruction of the relationships between land, labor, and capital but - whilst the projects are well-known - the role played by landscapes has been largely left unexamined. Similarly, the radical anti-capitalism that underpinned each project has similarly been, for the most part, left out of contemporary discussions. This book sets these projects within a historical and philosophical context and opens a discussion on the role of landscapes in society today. This book will be a must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of the history and theory of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture as well as utopian studies, cultural and social history, and environmental theory"--
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  • Author Jody Beck
  • ISBN13 9781032405445
  • ISBN10 1032405449
  • Pages 176
  • Published 2026
  • Fecha de publicación 16/05/2026
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