New book: Manifestos and Transformations

The context of the book is how the industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The book discusses how the urban discourse in the latter half of the nineteenth century was consequently dominated by a dialectic exchange between the ideal and the practical, a debate played out in the formation of the modern metropolis.

Manifestoes and Transformations is the first work to deal with these urban utopias and their relationship with actual urban interventions.

Christian Hermansen Cordua is professor of architecture at AHO. In the book, a number of AHO scholars contribute; Karl Otto Ellefsen, Edward Robbins and Johnny Aspen. In addition, a wide-ranging team of international experts take part; David Pinder, Graeme Gilloch, Ruth Hanisch, Dennis Hardy, Pierre Chabard, Dana Arnold, David Van Zanten, Albert Serratosa, David Frisby and Joachim Schlör.

By bringing together these carefully chosen scholars, Hermansen Cordua provides a broad, contextual exploration of the ideas and urban practices which are the foundations of our conception of the contemporary city. The book is meant to be a valuable resource for students interested in the formation of the modernist city.

The book was published on Ashgate in early March.

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