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| New Projects | Here Comes the Sun A look at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early twentieth-century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism and the city, this book concentrates on particular building types and spaces of the public domain: the parks, public-squares, open-air museums, libraries, health centres, promenades, public pools and lidos. The argument of the book is that in the design of many of these places and spaces, social democracy at last realised its own architectural and landscape aesthetic.
In the second half some of the great new parks and public spaces now being created in Europe – in Barcelona, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Rotterdam and elsewhere – are described and discussed. The book concludes by drawing attention to the crucial role that parks and public spaces now play once again in the civic and cultural life of the modern city. |
 Here Comes the Sun Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth Century European Culture  |
What the critics said: ‘This beautifully produced book makes a host of thought-provoking links between private faces and public places. It will surely make you see familiar and forgotten architectural landmarks in a new light.’ The Architect's Journal ‘A fascinating account of the political idealism that informed urban planning for the first two-thirds of the twentieth-century.’ ‘This is one of those books you stroke lovingly. Open it, and there is page after page of beautiful photographs…this book combines history, society, politics, environment and place in a well-written and emotive text.’ 'A fascinating, fact-filled tour-de-force of the development of northern Europe's parks, lidos, health spas, open air schools and hospitals, and the reasoning behind their creation…Here Comes the Sun is superb.' |
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