Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism by Ekman, Peter
Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism by Ekman, Peter

Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism

Timing the Future Metropolis--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar...
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Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism by Ekman, Peter

Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism

$130.83
Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism by Ekman, Peter

Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism

$130.83
Author: Peter Ekman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Timing the Future Metropolis--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city. Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT.

Through its sprawling programs of "organized research," its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. Timing the Future Metropolis ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.



Author: Peter Ekman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781501778391

About the Author

Peter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at USC's Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and at the Berggruen Institute.


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