GGR361H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pruitt–Igoe, Political Philosophy, Contrived
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*street followed lines that connects to places of work, commerce and housing. *street reflects the rough topography if the site. Late mercantile (colonial: romantic era (parks movement, ex. Charlottetown, grid usually started from a baseline along harbor: main roads that connects to important point of places; white houses, capital building or farm to common house. Tenement housing, the birth of canadian town planning. Modern sensibility in urban architecture and design. Confrontation and rise of participation (reject modernist planning) Relocating business, demolition of structures and relocate people. Govnt purchase property for public purposes, taking private property for city-initiated development projects. A reform mechanism; criticize as a mechanism for control. Over time, urban renewal evolves into a policy based less on destruction and more on renovation and investment. Demolishing poor condition houses/ slums usually follow up with urban renewal. Long process, land owner stop maintenance on housing condition. A large urban housing project in 1954 us, failure in urban renewal.