PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Public Participation, Lewis Mumford, Old Ideas
31 Mar 2017
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Respect must be given to existing urban environments: interventions must be small scale, gradual change, must understand complex history of given area, public participation (cooperation vs. socialism) Survey: review literature (topography, history of community, sociological survey (aesthetics, economy, sociology) Planning: exhibition for community, public discussion, selection of best projects, proposals. Forget the damned motorcar and build the cities for lovers and friends . Restore human legs as a means of travel use food for fuel and require no special parking services . Critiques modern technology because it causes social dislocation technology is taking control of civilization: hypocrite: pro-urban in his writing. Celebrates his intensity and diversity of new york. Architectural critic for new yorker magazine (30 years) Eyes on the street crime will not happen on busy street because there are always witnesses. Ballet of the street lots of individual parts that are not related but work together. In our american cities, we need all kinds of diversity .
