Urban Design since 1850

More notes from Architecture, You and Me by Siegfried Giedion (found in a second hand bookshop in 2005). This time it’s the recounting of a delightful list of important urban design developments since 1850 – books and building – according to Mr Giedion.

The New Urbanists amongst you may find the regular appearance of Corb a little upsetting. Nevertheless it’s a useful reference with many projects that deserve further investigation. I’ll be adding notes and links in the coming months to a wiki page: no2self.net/wiki. Feel free to edit it as well.

• 1856-1867 The Public Squares of Paris – Alphonse Alphand
• 1857-1860 Central Park, New York – Frederick Law Olmsted
• 1882 The Linear City – Arturo Soria y Mata
• 1889 The Art of Building Cities – Camillo Sitte
• 1898 Garden Cities of Tomorrow – Ebenezer Howard
• 1901 The Industrial City – Tony Garnier
• 1901 Housing Legislation in Holland
• 1915 Cities in Evolution – Patrick Geddes
• 1920 Welwyn Garden City, England – Raymond Unwin
• 1922 Plan Voisin, Paris – Le Corbusier
• 1927 Weissenhof Housing Project, Stuttgart
• 1927 Roemerstadt, Frankfort – Ernst May
• 1928 Dammerstock Housing Project, Karlsruhe – Walter Gropius
• 1929 Siemenstadt, Berlin – Walter Gropius
• 1929 Radburn, New Jersey – Henry Wright and Clarence Stein
• 1929 The Neighbourhood Unit – Clarence Perry
• 1933 The “Charte D’Athenes” – CIAM 4
• 1934 Broadacre City – Frank Lloyd Wright
• 1935 La Ville Radieuse – Le Corbusier
• 1938 Culture of Cities – Lewis Mumford
• 1944 The Greater London Plan – Patrick Abercrombie
• 1945 Saint-Die, Vosges, France – Le Corbusier
• 1948 Harlow New Town, England – Frederick Gibberd
• 1948 Chimbote, Peru – P.L.Wiener and J.L.Sert
• 1951 Chandigargh, Punjab, India – Le Corbusier
• 1951 The Core of the City – CIAM 8
• 1952 Vallingby, Sweden – Sven Markelius
• 1953 Back Bay Center, Boston, Massachusetts – Walter Gropius and others
• 1956 Alexander Polder, Holland – R.Bakema and Group OPBOUW
• 1956 Southdale Shopping Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Victor Gruen
• 1956 Lafayette Park, Detroit, Michigan – Mies van der Rohe
• 1957 Brazilia, Brazil

And then the book was published in 1958. So where do we go from there? Answers on a postcard please, I’m off to compile a list from 1958 onwards.