GEOG 3UP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: City Beautiful Movement, Blue-Collar Worker, Mass Production
19 Sep 2016
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Lecture 4 the industrial revolution & cities of tomorrow. The machine era: contributes to mass production. Accommodating growth and development was a fundamental planning feature. Massive residential and housing developments to accommodate blue collars. Maximum utilization of resources, hence poor conditions: originated in china and spread to europe, cities were dying and needed to increase health. Cities of mass transit 1900-1940 (city changed quickly, within 40 years) Design is a functional element in planning: goal was to make a beautiful city, try to come out of the slums. Commercial city center (g+60 towers: most expensive area to. Tower blocks (<10% land use) set within gardens. All led to adopt the predict to provide concept for highway. Car-orientated development, mainly in suburbs: suburbs are mainly for residential use, no shopping malls, allows for an exclusive community, doesn"t allow strangers and low status people from coming into the community. Theories of planning became tools for city development.
