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Author Kargon, Robert Hugh.

Title Invented Edens [electronic resource] : techno-cities of the twentieth century / Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella.

Imprint Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008.

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Description viii, 190 p. : ill., maps.
Series Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-186) and index.
Contents Introduction: The arc of utopias -- Neotechnics in the garden : the marriage of country and town -- Planning for national regeneration : techno-cities in the interwar years -- Techno-citta : technology and urban design in fascist Italy -- The techno-city goes to war : America in World War II and after -- Utopia revived : from industrial modernism to community -- The city of disciplines : utopia denied, utopia restored -- Techno-nostalgia and the new urbanism -- Conclusion: The fate of the industrial Eden.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cities and towns -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
Social history -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Molella, Arthur P., 1944-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262113205 (hbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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