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Investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain, not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual, and educational phenomenon. This work is intended for architectural, social, and urban historians as well as students and researchers offering insights into the development of the mid-twentieth century city.

This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.

Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, w...

This book explores Bruno Taut, a leading architectural theorist in Germany, and the modern architectural movement between 1914 1920.