Samuel M. Clevenger

Physical Culture and the Biopolitics of the International Garden City Movement (eBook, PDF)

Planning Healthy Recreation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within garden city planning discourse and the development of some of the first garden city communities in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031869815
• Artikelnr.: 73953033

Autorenporträt

Samuel M. Clevenger is Assistant Professor at Towson University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Biopolitics and the Physical Culture of the Garden City Model.- 1. The Significance of Physical Culture in Ebenezer Howard's Garden City Model.- 2. Town-Country Physical Culture and the Rise of Letchworth Garden City.- 3. The New Recreation: Physical Culture and the Regional Planning Association of America.- 4. Highwayless Physical Culture in the Planning of Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn.- Conclusion: Garden City Bodies for 'To-morrow'?.