ARCU 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Synoecism, Serval, Churchill Gardens
17 Apr 2018
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Modernist city design: after ww2, applied in 5 contexts: *** (commuters by car - forced to depend on) Adjusts the grain to build o ce towers with large oor plates. Adjusting the grain of the city to better connect it wont the expanding suburbs. Rebuilding european cities damaged by bombing (primarily housing, resisting for new. Major urban renewal projects in us cities (under title 1 and title 3 of the housing act) - raining housing. New cities from scratch ( applications of housing - taller and large complexed were a easier x) Use of large oor plates were giving an identity. Tower becomes in own within the human scale urban fabric. Toronto dominion building centre - van der rohe. Planned at the scale of a block. Shift in the white collar scale of workers (need for o ce building) Reinvented as a city - tertiary economy. Stuyvesant town - manhattan - slum clearance project - 1943 - title 1.
