PRACTICING UTOPIA: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE NEW TOWN MOVEMENT

Book ID/图书代码： 13560016B88743

English Summary/英文概要： The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New City—but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the twentieth century.

In Practicing Utopia, Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon. From Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California, Wakeman unspools a masterly account of the golden age of new towns, exploring their utopian qualities and investigating what these towns can tell us about contemporary modernization and urban planning. She presents the new town movement as something truly global, defying a Cold War East-West dichotomy or the north-south polarization of rich and poor countries. Wherever these new towns were located, whatever their size, whether famous or forgotten, they shared a utopian lineage and conception that, in each case, reveals how residents and planners imagined their ideal urban future.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 传统的城镇都是依靠自然资源或毗邻更大更繁荣的城镇而发展起来的。但“新城镇”却往往是根据某些为了打破过去发展趋势的命令而建成的。新城镇并非什么新事物，早在古代，腓尼基人便将他们的殖民地命名为“新城市”，但这样乌托邦式的城镇开发在20世纪又开始复苏。

在本书中，作者全面介绍了作为全球现象的新城镇运动。从芬兰的塔皮奥拉到巴基斯坦的伊斯兰堡，法国的塞尔齐•蓬多瓦兹到加州的尔湾，作者描绘了众多黄金时代的新城镇，探索其乌托邦式的特质，以及这些城镇在当今现代化及都市规划方面带给我们的启示。她认为，新城镇运动是全球范围内的现象。不论这些新城镇位于何处，规模如何，是否有名，它们都有相似的乌托邦式的血统和理念，都揭示了居民和规划者想象中的理想城市未来。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Times Higher Education“A landmark history.”

June Williamson, City College of New York

“Practicing Utopia is an ambitious and masterly historical synthesis, erudite and lucid, written in a lively and engaging style. Drawing on primary sources from around the globe as well as recent architectural and planning history, the book is an original and syncretic intellectual history of the New Town movement.”Florian Urban, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art

“A must-read for anyone interested in the intellectual underpinnings of the New Towns movement. Practicing Utopia is a convincing analysis of the intellectual background of one of the twentieth century’s most influential city models. This is a fascinating, elegantly written book.”Robert Beauregard, Columbia University

“After the Second World War, a new town movement projected urban utopianism across the globe. Impressive in its scope and fulfilling in its details, Practicing Utopia is a fascinating survey of this moment in worldwide urban development. The impulse to begin cities anew lives and no urbanist true to the label should avoid Wakeman’s book.”

About the Author/作者介绍： Rosemary Wakeman，历史教授，福特汉姆大学城市研究项目主任，著有《 The Heroic City: Paris 1945–1958》，由芝加哥大学出版社出版。现居住于纽约。

Rosemary Wakeman is professor of history and director of the Urban Studies Program at Fordham University. She is the author of The Heroic City: Paris 1945–1958, also published by the University of Chicago Press. She lives in New York.

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