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Timing the Future Metropolis - by Peter Ekman (Paperback)

Name: Timing the Future Metropolis - by Peter Ekman (Paperback)
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Timing the Future Metropolis--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city.
About the Author: Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.
384 Pages
Political Science, Public Policy

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"By focusing on one influential think tank, this book contributes to our understanding of postwar urban planning and reveals how committed planners and politicians are to its 'urban crisis' model of planning"- Provided by publisher.

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Timing the Future Metropolis--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT.

Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.

About the Author

Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He is a postdoctoral fellow at USC's Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and at the Berggruen Institute.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .85 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.24 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 384

Genre: Political Science

Sub-Genre: Public Policy

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Theme: City Planning & Urban Development

Format: Paperback

Author: Peter Ekman

Language: English

Street Date: November 15, 2024

TCIN: 1009223629

UPC: 9781501778391

Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-9191

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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