{"product_id":"landscape-and-utopia-9781032405445","title":"Landscape and Utopia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jody Beck\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Urban \u0026amp; Land Use Planning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; 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. \u003ci\u003eLandscape and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e 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 - while 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46441871835287,"sku":"9781032405445","price":3696.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032405445.webp?v=1769120499","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/landscape-and-utopia-9781032405445","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}