ISS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Garden City Movement, Community Gardening
16 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
9/11/18
Film: Urbanized
- Flows of people and goods
- Cities are the physical manifestations of the forces at play (environmental, economic,
etc)
- World is shifting to cities and has been ever shifting rapidly
- In 40 years 75% will live in cities
- Talks about rates of people to toilet seats→ demonstrates rapid urbanization and the
developments of mass producing items to accomodate for the city
- Slums are the richest parts of the city
- Create a concentric city with the ‘garden city’
- 1960s automobiles
- Lose fundamental infrastructure when people are apart from activities (schools, church)
- As people move away from cities, the heart is lost
- After war → suburbanization
- Sprawl vs suburbia
- Eats up rural villages by adding subdivisions
- Redistributing populations to lessen density in one particular area
- In Phoenix, but is still growing exponentially
- Community garden project
- Eliminated the choice between medicine and food
- Cities compete for investment
- South east Michigan should be revitalized
- Violence prevention through urban planning
- Housing, adequate lighting
- Sticky notes “I wish this was” and people write on them to help inspire urban planners
and future business planners
- Voted to continue the S1 project
Final Thoughts
Connections between structure of society and this class(social fabric and urban fabric)
- Jane activist urban writer spoke up about urban reform in her area
- Closed area so that there are eyes on the street
- Policy people saying that in Brazil security issue need to build open spaces
- Not taking into account what is important for people on the ground (see previous two
examples)
New ways to make cities and how they connect with people
Document Summary
Cities are the physical manifestations of the forces at play (environmental, economic, etc) World is shifting to cities and has been ever shifting rapidly. In 40 years 75% will live in cities. Talks about rates of people to toilet seats demonstrates rapid urbanization and the developments of mass producing items to accomodate for the city. Slums are the richest parts of the city. Create a concentric city with the garden city". Lose fundamental infrastructure when people are apart from activities (schools, church) As people move away from cities, the heart is lost. Eats up rural villages by adding subdivisions. Redistributing populations to lessen density in one particular area. Eliminated the choice between medicine and food. Sticky notes i wish this was and people write on them to help inspire urban planners and future business planners. Connections between structure of society and this class(social fabric and urban fabric) Jane activist urban writer spoke up about urban reform in her area.
