GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Garden City Movement, Cadbury, French Revolution
15 Nov 2018
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Urban planning and policy: urban policy and planning influences urban development, examples of planning include: Concerned with the management of urban change. Often seen as mediators between social purpose and the city form. Baron haussman"s paris: modern urban planning example, wide roads, very little blocking view if turning in a 360 view, repressing the rise of the french revolution. Bournville: housing people in better housing close to their work, this was for workers. Ebenezer howard"s garden cities: principles of garden cities. Each garden city would have a pop. of 32000. = plans would be managed to benefit everyone. Le corbusier city of towers: french architect, extreme density with spaciousness tall buildings with a lot of space between them, two models. Clusters of buildings linked by road or rail: cities not built, but ideas influenced others e. g. , niemeyer and costa"s plan for brasilia. Corbusier and public housing st. james town toronto. 1913, over 40 cities had masterplans: american planning institute 1917.
