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A History of the Future
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue between tec...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
November 25th 2008
by The Monacelli Press
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Professor Goodman provides a nice history of how people have been planning for the future. Because she is an architect herself, the book is very architecturally based, she also includes planners, inventors, and politicians. I wouldn't pick it up out of the blue for a fun read, but for a text book it was fast moving and easy to get through. Lots of pictures, too, which always helps!
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