PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Le Corbusier
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Features of a good neighbourhood street according to jane jacobs. Rhythm adapted to pedestrian movements: narrow facades with store windows. Absence of encroachment of car space: parking lots, gas stations. What you are building is not as good as what it is replacing. Street is a social environment, more than just a means of transportation. Apartments on top are looking over the street. Planners trying to go back to the street as an organizing method of cities. Successful downtown - high proportion of traffic is taxis. Planning shifted from street oriented to lack of street eg le corbusier, now shifting back to streets. Commercial on street with housing on top is good. New large condo developments that try to create good streets often less diverse than the traditional lively street. To make maximum use of technology available in the 1960"s and 1970"s in order to minimize the impact of the human race on planet earth.
