GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radiant City, Linear City, Urban Renewal
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Conflict between the people and power of municipal governments over what people could do with their own land. Focus on zoning, building regulations, parks planning etc. During ww2 focus on production acceptance of state intervention belief that large scale state intervention could help cities. Post ww2 big jump in population mass suburbanization scale and scope of planning expands urban renewal, public housing, expressways. Stripping out ornamentation (decoration of buildings, columns, statues etc. Build buildings around massive amounts of cars, new urban forms. Bulldozing of central paris for identical 60 story towers (but no one person owned all that land) Higher densities, reduce travel times (walk to work), prevent outward growth. Problematic because anything built from scratch has potential to fail if not done before- everything done at once doesn"t allow for space to correct problems boring built form, Strict separation of land use, resident, factories, markets etc. Get rid of class, everyone has same housing etc.
