ARCH 551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consequentialism, Public Health
22 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
ARCH 551: Topic 3
Institutional, Professional, and Ad-Hoc Approaches to City-Building
01/19/18
Defining a “metropolitan landscape”
oA complex, highly structured, organized body of things and ideas
oContains characteristics that are: formal, functional, and affective (produces
emotions)
Barnett: city-planning in post-war years was a collaborative process amongst architects,
planners, landscape architects
oHowever, no influence of the public
Typology of key actors in city-building:
oProducers/ providers: land developers, landlords, property- management firms
and architects, engineers, planners (in private practice)
oInstitutional networks: local capital agents (investors, brokers, and mortgage
lenders), unions, and non-governmental organizations
oConsumers: Households, firms, etc.
oThe State: serves as a regulatory agent
Provides both incentives and regulations
Serves as feedback to the producers and providers
Fainstein: Can we make the cities we want? And how?
oWe need counterinstitutions to evaluate the performance/ actions of the above
listed key actors!
This regulatory body will help ensure desirable results
Thinking about issues:
oFord: The poor institutional management of Hurricane Katrina cleanup proves
why we need forethought in city planning
Could have had certain infrastructures already in place that would have
reduced flooding damage
oArnstein: ladder of citizen participation
We need manageable participation!
Can’t have every city be planned by all of its inhabitants, but
shouldn’t be planned by just one person either
oNeed to reconcile a balance between maximum
participation and manageability
oGeneral city planning issues:
Control/ liability
Fire control
Public health
potable water
sewage infrastructure
1
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Defining a metropolitan landscape : a complex, highly structured, organized body of things and ideas, contains characteristics that are: formal, functional, and affective (produces emotions) Barnett: city-planning in post-war years was a collaborative process amongst architects, planners, landscape architects: however, no influence of the public. Serves as feedback to the producers and providers. And how: we need counterinstitutions to evaluate the performance/ actions of the above listed key actors! This regulatory body will help ensure desirable results. Thinking about issues: ford: the poor institutional management of hurricane katrina cleanup proves why we need forethought in city planning. Could have had certain infrastructures already in place that would have reduced flooding damage: arnstein: ladder of citizen participation. Can"t have every city be planned by all of its inhabitants, but shouldn"t be planned by just one person either: need to reconcile a balance between maximum participation and manageability, general city planning issues:
