CS206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Modern Architecture, Jan Gehl
7 Nov 2016
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Paces where people can congregate primarily as free people. Not places with a primary focus on generating profit. Looking for a places beyond the control of government, state and church. Congregate in coffee houses (england) and salons (france) Primary role of these places is not to actually sell coffee. Allow for the growing middle, mercantile class to communicate about their individual interests. Baron haussmann and the renovation of paris. Cities often re-planned (usually due to fires) France was once full of tight ally ways. Public transportation changed - public spaces changed. He had the city changed because he wanted to show power, wealth and changing to more open spaces stops people form rebelling and shutting down parts of the cites. So they could easily march armies down the middle of the city not to improve the city public. The growth of cites was painful at first. No public space was a big reason.
