HIST 3209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sanctification, Sussex Drive, Greber Plan
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Planning ii: town vs town visions for a city. Centrum blvd former towship of cumberland: built another one of these, cumberland town cent. Looks like a downtown core with these four large buildings: artificial town centre surrounded by land. New urbanism: seaside, florida: recreating the small town looked to the past. 1980s and 90s planners drawing upon small town noth america as the new model for the suburbs: the prototype community is seaside, florida, andres duany and elizabeth playter-zyberk. 5 years later, this plan was abandoned and the big box stores started being built: new urbanism continues to be used to create elite enclaves. Poundbury: has rather slavish reproductions of verncacular architecture from the west of england. 1927 oic federal district commission (pm wlm king: confederation square displaces city hall, diagonal canalside, design control near parlty precinct. These planning initiatives ended when wwii started but continued afterwards.