PLAN300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Slum Clearance, Liberal Democracy, Fordism
15 Jan 2017
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Time period; set of ideas/values; physical manifestations in art, built form, clothing; social manifestations in norms, entertainment, economic conditions, relations. Modernity: the modern era; conditions of being modern. Intellectual reasoning: scientific revolution, separation of church and state, liberal democracy; social contracts, encyclopaedias and education. Anti-traditional: religion, heritage, small, communal, villages. Universality and grand narratives: singular identity, nationhood. Fragmentation: single and separated land uses, suburbs vs. (residential-less) city, big shopping centres, expressways. Isolated redevelopment projects: regional planning-towns, greenbelts, corbusier, wright, howard. Fordist economics: mass consumption, large homes and cars, middle class imperative. **middle class was very important in the rise and maintenance of modernism. The public good and good city can be objectively defined by technical experts on the city: planners: planners know how cities work and what the public needs. Rational comprehensive model: planner as expert, technical solutions, efficiencies. Large scale development focus: little focus on environmental or heritage, slum clearance in cities, planned suburbs.
