Timing the future metropolis : foresight, knowledge, and doubt in America's postwar urbanism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ekman, Peter, 1985- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Joint Center for Urban Studies > Influence. City planning > United States > History > 20th century. Cities and towns > Research > United States > History > 20th century. United States > History > 1945- Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Urban times
Centers and their edges: formations of urban knowledge in postwar America
The atmosphere and the network: organizing expertise at the joint center for urban studies
"Our retrospection will all be to the future": history, inference, and the temporalities of planning
"A documented experience": Cambridge on the Caroní
Reoriented: the conservative center and the new politics of expectation
The belated city: forgetting the future metropolis
Coda. "A forward signal".