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| Author(s): |
Lorenza Pavesi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2015-03-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Julio Valentino Bruna;
Luciano Bernardino da Costa;
Stael de Alvarenga Pereira Costa;
Renato Cymbalista;
Heliana Comin Vargas
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| Advisor: | Paulo Julio Valentino Bruna |
| Abstract | |
This thesis explores the circulation of Urban Design practices and experiences with a specific emphasis on the Townscape principles developed, from the 1940s, in the context of London based magazine Architectural Review. This set of theories arose as a critique on the disfigurement of landscapes and townscapes caused mainly by the indiscriminate sprawl of the suburb. The Townscape movement consisted, in part, of a reinterpretation of the aesthetic ideal of the Picturesque and aimed at producing, during the post war reconstruction period, a methodology of Urban Design and challenge both modernist planning and the Garden City model. Although the movement was generally considered a strictly British phenomenon, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that these principles were received, assimilated and incorporated, more or less successfully, in Urban Design theories and practices in the United States, Italy and Brazil. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/08318-7 - Reception and diffusion of Townscape theories in England, Italy, France, United States and Brazil 1950-1980. |
| Grantee: | Lorenza Pavesi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |