GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Eric Copeland, Lewis Mumford
27 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 10 new (sub)urban visions garden city ideas and city beautiful designs incorporated in contemporary new master-planned cities all over the world. Lewis mumford: produced the city, a public intellectual, urban historian, architectural critic for the newyorker, made frank lloyd wright (architect) familiar to common people, optimistic about city and humanity and technology. Assumption that we an design our way out of anything. The city (1939: film shown at 1939 new york world"s fair. Theme: the world of tomorrow : artistic piece, audience people attending the world"s fair. Regular people: soundtrack by eric copeland. Father of stuart copeland in the police: a cinematic essay , four part structure. New england village and arts of life. Landscape as a balance of work, culture and politics. Eg. nyc service industry rigid schedules and regulations. Primary real estate given over to non-human world technology enslaves humans. Unification of city and nature in one place.
