ARCU 4600 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 (half)Post WWII Urbanism.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Architecture Urban
• Course: ARCU 4600
• Professor: Benjamin Gianni

Document Summary

Instead of fixing it up because there"s too little infrastructure, you fix it up because there"s fewer people and less money (from taxes) to maintain the infrastructure: tear it down instead, reconstruct the city in a more suburban model, abandon the city (cid:224) people who are leaving the core suggest that the era of the city is done, gone is the city of dreadful night" nightmare that"s over, transportation and communication technologies opening up new locations for people to live and how they will live, young people like the crowd but as we age, we will prefer the country according to wells. Electric street rail up to 5 mile radius: railway suburbs as those dots outside the start shape, city expanded from 12. 5 sq. miles to 78. 5 sq. miles, quadrupled in area, extension of streetrail changes the, a lot of different uses segregation of uses and new demographic groups i. e. new market is for the rich.