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Module 5: 20th Century Urban Design
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- 1THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT Clarence Stein, Clarence Perry 5 minute walks, easy to reach
- 2GOETHEANUM Rudolf Steiner, anthrosophist plasticity of concrete scientific + spiritual metropolitan farming village
- 3UNITE D'HABITATION Le Corbusier Marsailles, France Functionalism: over-crowding, no useless thing, high density Reception: "tragic loneliness"
- 4The Suburban Dream from need of housing after wars sprawl Levittown people of the same age, race and stage in life
- 5BRASILIA Lucio Costa (Planning) Oscar Niemeyer (Buildings) airport plan not city socialist not capitalist puritan functionalism not for pedestrians
- 6ARCHIGRAM Instant City in a Field Peter Cook like a circus
- 7ARCHIGRAM Kunsthaus Graz mystery capsule
- 8GEODESIC DOME Buckminster Fuller American Pavillion Hippie Generation "spaceship earth"
- 9HABITAT 67 Mosh Safdie World Fair 1967
- 10Maison Gaudet Antti Lovag vanity
- 11SUPERSURFACE alternate life on earth
- 12EARTH HOUSES Peter Vetsch avoid adding or removing earth
- 13ARCOSANTI, ARIZONA Paolo Soleri Arcology maximize human interaction minimize travel time
- 14THE VENUS PROJECT Jaque Fresco material sufficiency ends struggle
- 15BROADACRES Frank Lloyd Wright every American family lives on an acre of land
- 16MILE HIGH TOWER FLW's repsonse to criticisms of Broad acres: place all of Manhattan' rich into one hyper-dense tower
- 17CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB, INDIA Le Corbusier's onlyplan developed orignally Albert Meyer's applied Radburn principle: Superblock
- 18CANBERRA AUSTRALIA Response to City Beautiful Movement Triangular Plan: Court of Justice, Parliament House, Capitol Building
- 19NEW DELHI, INDIA Sir Edward Lutyens did not take into account rapid population growth of India Kingsway East-West axis
- 20CIUDAD LINEAL/ LINEAR CITY Arch. Arturio Soria y Mata
- 21LINEAR CITY, STALINGARD Russia Socialist N.A. Milyutin
- 22ARCOLOGY Polo Soleri Dome House, Santa Fe, Ceramica Artistica
- 23MOTOPIA Edgar Chambles Vehicular traffic on roof tops
- 24BARBICAN dense housing development in London
- 25FLOATING CITIES Kiyonori Kikutake
- 26MEGALOPOLIS coined by American Jean Gottman "Great City" strong physical linkage between 3 + cities
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- Oct. 10, 2017 documentary notes on urban design works of the 20th century
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- Angeline Bien · Oct 2017
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