Benevolo 1967: o urbanismo e o mercado

BENEVOLO L, The Origins of Modern Town Planning. The M.I.T. Press Collection 1967. Trad Judith Landry.

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Preface

The birth of modern town-planning did not coincide with the technical and economic movements which created and transformed the industrial town; it emerged later, when these changes began to be felt to their full extent and when they began to conflict, making some kind of corrective intervention inevitable.

Even today town-planning technique invariably lags behind the events it is supposedly controlling, and it retains a strictly remedial character. It is therefore important to examine the first attempts at town-planning that were applied to an industrial society in order to discover the reasons for the original time-lag.

The aim of this book is, primarily, to emphasize the two-fold otigin, technical and ideological, of these experiments, and to provide a reconstruction of the two factors which inspired the first reformers: the economic and social changes which produced the inequalities of the first decades of the nineteenth century, and the changes in political theory and public opinion which meant that these disparities were no longer accepted as inevitable but were regarded as obstacles that could and should be removed. (..)

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