More notes from Architecture, You and Me by Siegfried Giedion (found in a second hand bookshop in 2005). This time it's the recounting of a delightful list of important urban design developments since 1850 - books and building - according to Mr Giedion. The New Urbanists amongst you may find the regular appearance of Corb a little upsetting. Nevertheless it's a useful reference with many projects that deserve further investigation. I'll be adding notes and links in the coming months to a wiki page: no2self.net/wiki. Feel free to edit it as well.
  • 1856-1867 The Public Squares of Paris - Alphonse Alphand
  • 1857-1860 Central Park, New York - Frederick Law Olmsted
  • 1882 The Linear City - Arturo Soria y Mata
  • 1889 The Art of Building Cities - Camillo Sitte
  • 1898 Garden Cities of Tomorrow - Ebenezer Howard
  • 1901 The Industrial City - Tony Garnier
  • 1901 Housing Legislation in Holland
  • 1915 Cities in Evolution - Patrick Geddes
  • 1920 Welwyn Garden City, England - Raymond Unwin
  • 1922 Plan Voisin, Paris - Le Corbusier
  • 1927 Weissenhof Housing Project, Stuttgart
  • 1927 Roemerstadt, Frankfort - Ernst May
  • 1928 Dammerstock Housing Project, Karlsruhe - Walter Gropius
  • 1929 Siemenstadt, Berlin - Walter Gropius
  • 1929 Radburn, New Jersey - Henry Wright and Clarence Stein
  • 1929 The Neighbourhood Unit - Clarence Perry
  • 1933 The "Charte D'Athenes" - CIAM 4
  • 1934 Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 1935 La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier
  • 1938 Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford
  • 1944 The Greater London Plan - Patrick Abercrombie
  • 1945 Saint-Die, Vosges, France - Le Corbusier
  • 1948 Harlow New Town, England - Frederick Gibberd
  • 1948 Chimbote, Peru - P.L.Wiener and J.L.Sert
  • 1951 Chandigargh, Punjab, India - Le Corbusier
  • 1951 The Core of the City - CIAM 8
  • 1952 Vallingby, Sweden - Sven Markelius
  • 1953 Back Bay Center, Boston, Massachusetts - Walter Gropius and others
  • 1956 Alexander Polder, Holland - R.Bakema and Group OPBOUW
  • 1956 Southdale Shopping Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Victor Gruen
  • 1956 Lafayette Park, Detroit, Michigan - Mies van der Rohe
  • 1957 Brazilia, Brazil
And then the book was published in 1958. So where do we go from there? Answers on a postcard please, I'm off to compile a list from 1958 onwards.