PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scranton, Pennsylvania, Interstate 78 In New York, Shorthand
24 Apr 2016
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1900 onwards: the city of people (geddes, mumford, jacobs) Scottish biologist and botanist; major influence on urban planning. Respect for the existing urban environment, planning interventions should be small in scale and gradual: need to understand the history and dynamics of an urban area before intervening, encourages public participation. Cities should be organic; not up to one person to decide. His influence is world wide because he"s british. Urban planning activity in the middle east (jerusalem) and in india. Cities in evolution: an introduction to the town planning movement and to the study of. Survey: review literature on topography and history of the community, sociological survey (aesthetics, economy and sociology, look at projects from elsewhere. Planning: exhibition for community, public discussion, selection of best projects, proposals. Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends . Restore human legs as a means of travel. November 16th, 2015 the story of utopias (1922)
