Valsson T., 2017, Shaping the Future. Ideas-Planning-Design, Reykjavik, Fjölvi, 216 p.
The book Shaping the Future by Trausti Valsson (born 1946 in Reykjavik, Iceland) is an intertwined narrative of the author’s biography and a history of planning ideas during his career. It is a lifetime perspective of an Icelandic architect, planner, theoretician and the first and to this date only...
| Published in: | Cybergeo |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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UMR 8504 Géographie-cités
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/29108 |
| Summary: | The book Shaping the Future by Trausti Valsson (born 1946 in Reykjavik, Iceland) is an intertwined narrative of the author’s biography and a history of planning ideas during his career. It is a lifetime perspective of an Icelandic architect, planner, theoretician and the first and to this date only professor of planning at the University of Iceland. It provides the author’s perspective on what shaped major idelogies in planning and urban design in the Western world as well as in Iceland in po. |
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