GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Built Environment, Commuter Town, New Urbanism
27 Apr 2016
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Review: the city (1939: ideological dimensions. Fantasy about what life in the country is like. Cities in 1939 only places of work: pollution, disease ridden centers. New england village was used as a historical ideal of the good life: served as a model of the future for greenbelt cities, wasn"t backwards looking. Embracing industrialization in a very particular form. Limits of prediction of new technology: blindness to one"s own ideology, mumford was futurist but had some things very wrong. Tells us something about the need to be humble: social dimensions. Women portrayed at home: only saw women in private spaces, but they were shown working in the industrial city. New cities (cid:0) replacing women: putting women back into private sphere. Mumford did not predict the consequences of mass automobile ownership. Most common landscape in canada and the us mass production suburb: dominant urban form of the 20th century. Single greatest transformation of cities in 20th century (cid:0) popularization of suburb.
