Historians, architects, social scientists, urban planners, and other scholars of the city look at the conceptions of ideal cities articulated in late-18th-century Europe, as industrialization
and urbanization were ushering in the modern period. They also describe and analyze the massive urban projects during the latter half of the 19th century that derived--be it through many hands
and transformations--from some of these early notions. Their topics include William Morris' News from Nowhere as a utopian dream, the idea of modernity in Cerd�'s Teor穩a General de la
Urbanizaci籀n, Camillo Sitte's City Planning According to Artistic Principles in Vienna of 1889, Ebenezer Howard and the garden city as a plain man's guide to the future, making London's
modernity, the significance and impact of Vienna's Ringstrasse, Berlin 1900, and Harald Hals' general plan for Oslo in 1929. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
