Paradoxical urbanism : anti-urban currents in modern urbanism / Malcolm Miles.

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrum...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Miles, Malcolm (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:	Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:	Urbanization. Sociology, Urban. Rural-urban relations. City planning.