GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Le Corbusier, Urban Design, Urban Renewal
27 Apr 2016
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Dominant form of suburbs lead to hyper-privatization of activities: all these suburban designs are trying to integrate nature, suburban designs all rejected the dark satanic mills of industrialization. Optimism that technology could bring humans back to nature to assert a more natural way of life. Modernist urban design: represents a break with prior planning traditions, modernist urban design embraces industrialization. Uses dark satanic mills as ideal model for cities: le corbusier. Very influential in urban design and renewal. Blamed for raft of urban problems and set of mistakes in urban renewal in 20th century. A house is a machine for living in streets are machines of design to move traffic. Machines are judged by how well they do their job not by how beautiful they look. Modernists redefined beauty: beauty = efficiency calling something a machine was a compliment, best urban designs were machine like.
