PLAN104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Urban Design
8 Jun 2016
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Redeveloping regent park; a planning approach to solving a planning failure. First public housing in canada, downtown toronto, 1950s, 69 acres. Modernist urban design (mix of ebenezer howard"s garden city and le corbusier"s. Off the street grid, low density, typical public housing design. Started out nice and family oriented, but it deteriorated with time, neglect, and lack of maintenance. Gained the reputation of being a site of crime, vandalism, and drug dealing (became stigmatised) Original park typified everything wrong with public housing. Planners were blamed for poor design, since the area was only residential and had non-continuous streets and negative media focus. Became a stigmatised community due to reputation for drugs, crime, and vandalism/buildings and grounds in poor repair/deteriorated condition. Area has a long-standing tradition of community involvement and had innovative, successful programs such as those for arts and culture, residents building a community centre, and a distinctive social profile where there is a highly diverse population and youth.
