GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Birds Eye View, Fordism, Modern Architecture
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The product of modernity: the enlightenment play of reason, science, and technology. Simplification and standardization in a new global building form. 1922 imaginary sketch by le corbusier of a modern city: high rises; in a park; freeways; bird"s eye view (cf. The city for the masses, compare packing cases to stacked apartments and assembly lines to freeways. Machine is the prototypical cultural form: a house is a. Machine for living in a street is a factory for producing traffic. - Compare to chaplin"s movie modern times (movie where everything is automated) and the domination of the machine. Universal project: ciam and international style; global congress is organized to promote the international style. Chandigarh, punjab (city) named after the goddess of power, built by le corbusier. 1950-1965 pm nehru says chandigarh is unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of the nations faith in the future. Brasilia (city) and nation building: a modern landscape for a modernizing nation.
