GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Le Corbusier, Informal Social Control, Urban Renewal
27 Apr 2016
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Midterm: thursday, march 10, 6-8:30 pm, leacock 132. Review: pruitt-igoe project, st. louis: hopeful slum clearance, turned out to be one of the most blighted areas of all of canada, peter hall. Modernist ideas applied to urban renewal projects across north. Public housing following corbusier"s ideas were colossal failures. Public housing has become synonymous with modernist design. Public housing"s failure conflated with failure of modernist. Conventional wisdom: bad design design: blames failure of pruitt-igoe and similar housing projects on their bad design, typical critiques. This design isolates low-income groups from the rest of the city. Lack of privacy doesn"t lead to social problems. Modernist designs that increase privacy actually increase isolation. Orderly looking spaces are not necessarily socially orderly. Public areas had high rates of crime: led to the lack of defensible space. Areas where residents feel like they control it or have some kind of responsibility for.
