GGR217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reconstruction Era, Collective Ownership, Social Change
10 Apr 2018
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It is important to realize that the 19th 20th utopians were working in tremendous instability. They believed in many ways to balance the social systems through planning. Another way to think about planning is that it inherits residues of utopian thinking. Inspired by radical reconstruction solving urban and social crisis of their time. Wright: broad acre: theres no direct impact of this model on the way actual cities were built, any marxist socialism, means of production would be dispersed individually. Howard: garden city: late 1800s, inspired by chicago, decongest cities by building cities in the country side, collective ownership, the (cid:272)it(cid:455) is (cid:374)ot the u(cid:374)it it"s the (cid:374)e(cid:454)twork. Social change without revolution: through changing spatial order. Marx responds with communism to change it again. Suppose to separate the neighborhood from the practice. Green belt towns inspired by the garden city. Part of the new deal after the great depression. Gov. hired sociology to manage the application process.
