Here Comes the Sun looks at how social reformers; planners and architects in the early twentieth century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit; ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism; Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in-between – the parks; public squares; open-air museums; promenades; public pools and other public leisure facilities. Life in the open was of particular concern to early urban planners and reformers; with their dreams of release from the confines of overcrowded; unsanitary slums. Picturing youthful working-class bodies made healthy by exercise and tanned by the sun; they imagined an escape route from cities. Worpole demonstrates how open-air public spaces became sought-after commissions for many early modernist architects in the early 1900s; resulting in the transformation of the European cityscape.
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