Module 5: 20th Century Urban Design

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