CONTENTS Illustration credits ix Notes on contributors x Preface xv 1 Rural and urban milieux 1 ANDREW BALLANTYNE AND GILLIAN INCE 2 Villeggiatura in the urban context of Renaissance Rome : Paul III Farnese's villa-tower on the Campidoglio 28 ANTONELLA DE MICHELIS 3 Rural urbanism : London's West End 42 DANA ARNOLD 4 Anti-urban Utopia in the Aufklarung: the ideological background of Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff's architecture 55 MARC BRABANT 5 Urban meets rural: a study of three eighteenth-century retreats on the Isle of Wight 70 STEWART ABBOTT 6 The picturesque bourgeois house at the edge of the neoclassical city 89 PHILIPPE GRESSET 7 'Such a magnificent farmstead in my opinion asks for a-muddy pool': rural buildings and the search for a 'regional' architecture in Belgium 110 LEEN MEGANCK AND LINDA VAN SANTVOORT 8 Nature and the city in 1920s America: Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York 134 BRUCE THOMAS 9 Rurality as a locus of modernity : Romanian inter-war architecture 145 CARMEN POPESCU 10 Is the kibbutz a 'radiant village'? Le Corbusier and the Zionist movement 160 MARINA EPSTEI N-PLIOUCHTCH AND TZAFRIR FAINHOLTZ 11 An unlikely influence: Le Corbusier and the Garden City movement 177 EMMA DUMMETT 12 From the 'model village' to a satellite town : reading change in Temelli through the transformation of its residential landscape 190 ALI CENGIZKAN AND DIDEM KILICKIRAN Index 208