GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Scale, Transect, Urban Design
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We make our surroundings, and then our surroundings make us: and at the moment they are a working model of hell norma pearson, hell is a suburb". Developing on periphery of cities periphery always being pushed. Idea on periphery development and highways, car-dependent: moral attributes to certain places. Location at, or close to, the urban fringe. Exclusively residential, implying that residents must commute beyond the suburb to work. Greater profits can be made by building on new land. Cars most important technology in facilitating suburban expansion. Gridiron to cul-de-sac plan: gridiron allows for multi-use, cul-de-sac roundabouts breaks communities, creates useless space, longer travel time. Commercial sprawl most big cities (around suburbs) Suburban office parks intentional places outside of city in suburbs. Utopian ideas: associated with the idea of the good life. Idea of fresh air, closer to nature, security, healthy lifestyle, better development for children, women away from messiness.
